Kin of Crash Victims Helped on Food Cost

Investigators, moved by the financial hardship faced by the families of TWA Flight 800 victims, passed the hat to raise money for meals they ate at a hotel in Smithtown, N.Y., during a weekend trip to look at the wreckage. The 150 people will still have to pay their own air fare and hotel bills for the first organized tour of the wreckage from the July 17 disaster that killed 230 people. The families asked TWA to help pay for the weekend, but the airline declined, even refusing to offer bereavement travel rates. TWA spokesman Mark Abeles said the airline had already paid for the victims’ funerals and burial expenses.