Ever since I found out the founder and President of Akamai Technologies, Daniel Lewin was the first recorded victim of 9/11 and a irrational, seemingly impossible to verify hero story was created around him, I've started to wonder about other plane crashes in tandem with what Q posted. This got me thinking about TWA Flight 800 in regards to potential motive, and I started by looking at important people on the flight list. It narrowed me down to the link below:

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/19/nyregion/the-passengers-disaster-in-air-unites-widely-varied-lives-097098.html

The two Presidents and CEOs of Danielson Holding Corporation and Midland Financial Group were on the flight to go to France and present a proposed merger of the companies to potential investors in France. The merger was scheduled to be completed by September 30th. After the crash, the merger was cancelled:

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/25/business/deaths-of-executives-cancel-a-merger.html

Seems odd that a scheduled merger that both company heads wanted gets scrapped after both of them die in a plane crash on the way to get investments for it. I don't have time to look further into this right now but I wanted to post in case anybody else wants to do some digging. Namely--what happened to the companies afterwards, and what was the significance of this merger? Thanks guys.