TWA Flight 800 remembered

Ceremony for victims of TWA Flight 800

Family and friends of victims of TWA Flight 800 remember their loved ones during a memorial ceremony at Smith Point County Park in Shirley on Friday, July 17, 2015. The 1996 jet explosion into the ocean off East Moriches killed all 230 people aboard.

At the TWA Flight 800 Memorial

Family and friends of victims of TWA Flight 800 remember their loved ones during a memorial ceremony at Smith Point County Park in Shirley on Friday, July 17, 2015. The 1996 jet explosion into the ocean off East Moriches killed all 230 people aboard.

Families toss carnations into the sea

Family and friends of victims of TWA Flight 800 attended a memorial ceremony at Smith Point County Park in Shirley on Friday, July 17, 2015. The 1996 jet explosion into the ocean off East Moriches killed all 230 people aboard.

TWA Flight 800 victims remembered

Family and friends of victims of TWA Flight 800 remember their loved ones during a memorial ceremony at Smith Point County Park in Shirley on Friday, July 17, 2015. The 1996 jet explosion into the ocean off East Moriches killed all 230 people aboard.

230 victims of Flight 800 remembered

Family and friends of victims of TWA Flight 800 remember their loved ones during a memorial ceremony at Smith Point County Park in Shirley on Friday, July 17, 2015. The 1996 jet explosion into the ocean off East Moriches killed all 230 people aboard.

TWA Flight 800 Memorial

Family and friends of victims of TWA Flight 800 remember their loved ones during a memorial ceremony at Smith Point County Park in Shirley on Friday, July 17, 2015. The 1996 jet explosion into the ocean off East Moriches killed all 230 people aboard.

Pausing to remember the victims

Family and friends of victims of TWA Flight 800 remember their loved ones during a memorial ceremony at Smith Point County Park in Shirley on Friday, July 17, 2015. The 1996 jet explosion into the ocean off East Moriches killed all 230 people aboard.

Stephanie Suskind, Michael Siebert honor family members

Long Beach residents Stephanie Suskind and Michael Siebert, who lost family members in the TWA Flight 800 plane crash in 1996, attend a memorial ceremony at Smith Point County Park in Shirley on Friday, July 17, 2015. All 230 people aboard were killed when the jet exploded and crashed into the ocean off East Moriches.

Memorial for TWA Flight 800

Family and friends of victims of TWA Flight 800 touch the names of their loved ones etched on a black granite wall during a memorial ceremony at Smith Point County Park in Shirley on Friday, July 17, 2015. The 1996 jet explosion into the ocean off East Moriches killed all 230 people aboard.

Laying a rose at the TWA Flight 800 Memorial

Margaret Krick of St. Louis places roses at the base of the black granite wall in memory of victims of TWA Flight 800 at Smith Point County Park in Shirley on Friday, July 17, 2015. Krick's son, Oliver Krick, 25, a flight engineer, was on the jet when it exploded and crashed into the ocean off East Moriches in 1996, killing all 230 people aboard.

Pausing to remember TWA Flight 800

Family and friends of victims of TWA Flight 800 remember their loved ones during a memorial ceremony at Smith Point County Park in Shirley on Friday, July 17, 2015. The 1996 jet explosion into the ocean off East Moriches killed all 230 people aboard.

Ceremony honoring 230 killed in 1996 crash

Family and friends of victims of TWA Flight 800 remember their loved ones during a memorial ceremony at Smith Point County Park in Shirley on Friday, July 17, 2015. The 1996 jet explosion into the ocean off East Moriches killed all 230 people aboard.

Pausing to remember

Family and friends of victims of TWA Flight 800 remember their loved ones during a memorial ceremony at Smith Point County Park in Shirley on Friday, July 17, 2015. The 1996 jet explosion into the ocean off East Moriches killed all 230 people aboard.

Margaret Krick remembers her son

Margaret Krick of St. Louis holds a carnation as she stands in front of the black granite wall in memory of victims of TWA Flight 800 at Smith Point County Park in Shirley on Friday, July 17, 2015. Krick's son, Oliver Krick, 25, a flight engineer, was on the jet when it exploded and crashed into the ocean off East Moriches in 1996, killing all 230 people aboard.

Family, friends pause to remember

Family and friends of victims of TWA Flight 800 remember their loved ones during a memorial ceremony at Smith Point County Park in Shirley on Friday, July 17, 2015. The 1996 jet explosion into the ocean off East Moriches killed all 230 people aboard.