List of 39 Passengers, Crew Freed to End Hijack Crisis
Here is a list of the 39 passengers and crew held hostage in Beirut in the hijacking of TWA Flight 847. The hostages were released in the Lebanese capital on Sunday and driven to Damascus, Syria, where they boarded a U.S. Air Force transport plane that arrived in Frankfurt, West Germany, early this morning.
Crew
1. Capt. John L. Testrake
2. First Officer Philip G. Maresca
3. Flight Engineer Benjamin Zimmermann
Passengers
4. Victor Amburgy
5. Kenneth Anderson
6. Jerome J. Barczak
7. Ken Bowen
8. Michael R. Brown
9. Robert G. Brown
10. Leo C. Byron
11. Kurt L. Carlson
12. Allyn B. Conwell
13. Thomas V.S. Cullins
14. Stewart Dahl
15. William J. Darras
16. Stuart Darsch
17. Fr. Thomas J. Dempsey
18. Grant Elliott
19. Vicente Garza
20. Simon Grossmayer Jr.
21. Richard Herzberg
22. Peter W. Hill
23. James Hoskins Jr.
24. Jeffrey Ingalls
25. Raymond Johnson
26. George Lazansky
27. Jack McCarthy
28. Fr. James W. McLoughlin
29. Richard Moon
30. Thomas W. Murry
31. Bob Peel Jr.
32. Clinton Suggs
33. Blake Synnestvedt
34. Arthur Toga
35. Ralf W. Traugott
36. Robert Trautmann Jr.
37. Tony Daniel Watson
38. Claude E. Whitmoyer
39. Steve Willett
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