FLIGHT 800: TRAGEDY’S AFTERMATH : Couple Met, Died on Flight 800

Jacques and Constance Charbonnier met as flight attendants on TWA Flight 800 to Paris 20 years ago, and they married soon afterward.

Then on Wednesday, the couple were killed on the route they had flown together so many times when the 747 exploded shortly after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Jacques, 66, and Connie, 49, “made a lifetime career out of flying for TWA. It was a thing they loved to do,” said Edward Hayes, a neighbor in Northport on New York’s Long Island.

The Charbonniers spent years boarding Flight 800 every Wednesday and returning home the following Sunday.

Mrs. Charbonnier was also an avid artist who loved to paint in watercolors. Charbonnier, a French national and veteran of the war in Algeria, loved to read and was also a movie buff.