Remembering TWA flight 800 victims This year marks 25 years since a plane explosion killed 16 students and five adult chaperones from Montoursville high school. Author: Amanda Eustice (WNEP) Updated: 6:23 PM EDT July 17, 2021 MONTOURSVILLE, Pa. — As Michele Jez and her sister stood inside the General John Burrows Historical Society's Flight 800 memorial room in Montoursville, they stared at the faces of 21 people whose lives were cut way too short. Michele's daughter is among them. "It's been a long time. I think about her all the time so it really. It used to be that when July hit I would be upset, and just not even realize, then it would hit me but she's just become part of our life the way she is now," said Michele Jez, of Montoursville.