O.C. Man, 6 Other Passengers on TWA Flight 800 Identified

Now, only four are missing.

Just a day after the anniversary of the crash of TWA Flight 800, the Suffolk County medical examiner said Friday that seven more victims, including a Newport Beach man, have been positively identified by matching DNA from their remains to genetic material found in their personal items or relatives’ blood samples.

That brings the total identified to 226 out of the 230 aboard the plane.

Among those named Friday are William Story, 51, who had been flying to Paris from Orange County for a business meeting as president and chief executive officer of Danielson Holding Corp.’s insurance subsidiary, National American Insurance Co. of California.

He is survived by a wife, Judy, and two stepdaughters.

Others passengers now identified are Brent Richey, 26, of Van Nuys, who died with his fiancee, Seana Anderson; Arthur Benjamin, a Philadelphia teacher; his wife, Joan, a semiretired architect; and Giuseppe Mercurio of Palo del Colle, Italy, whose wife also died on the plane.

The others are Constance Charbonnier, of Northport, N.Y., the final TWA employee to be identified, and Gene Silverman, a tax attorney from Olney, Md., whose wife and two daughters also died in the crash.

Still missing are Avishaim Mesuhulam, of New York City; Janet O’Hara, of Irvington, N.Y.; Katrina Rose, of Ohio; and Jean Zara, of France.