Dental records and fingerprints — the traditional tools for
identifying crash victims — were unavailable, so the forensic scientists took a different tack: DNA fingerprinting.
Not exact matches
The
victim in the deadly
crash along the Thruway during yesterday's afternoon commute has been
identified.
A man from Ithaca was
identified as the
victim of a fatal
crash Friday night in Dryden.
When a Russian passenger jet
crashed in Norway last fall, forensic scientists had the gruesome task of
identifying victims from sometimes minuscule body parts.
The Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) has already used Bonaparte with success: to
identify the
victims — the majority of whom were Dutch — of the 2010 Tripoli airplane
crash, and in 2012 to find out who had murdered a young Dutch woman, Marianne Vaatstra, in 1999.
A team of French forensic experts are beginning the task of
identifying the decomposed remains of 104
victims of Air France flight 447, which
crashed off the coast of Brazil two years ago.
Update: Many sources are now
identifying the
victims of yesterday's plane
crash as Tesla Motors employees Doug Bourn of Santa Clara, a senior electrical engineer; Andrew Ingram of Palo Alto, an electrical engineer; and Brian M. Finn of East Palo Alto; a senior manager of interactive electronics.
Source: «Erie plane
crash victims identified as attorney Oliver Frascona, Tori Rains - Wedan and her 3 children,» ABC 7News Denver (Sept. 1, 2014)