TWA Flight 800: Remains to be destroyed; crash killed 2 from Tennessee
Gray, a Memphis insurance executive, was remembered as a father of two who enjoyed a game of golf, wine, scuba diving and running. He was the president and chief operating officer of Midland Financial Group Inc. in Memphis at the time of the explosion on July 17, 1996. A colleague said one of Gray's nicknames was "Mr. Risk." "He was not afraid to take a chance," Elena Barham, who was Midland's Chief Financial Officer, told The Commercial Appeal in 1996. "He lived life to the fullest, every minute of it." Famed French guitarist Marcel Dadi was on his way back from Nashville when he boarded ...