Germanwings DNA identification could take four months
Australian Associated Press reports today that it could take up to four months to identify victims from last week’s Germanwings crash using DNA, according to the head of the research institute carrying out the work. Francois Daoust, the head of the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie in Pontoise near Paris, told dpa on Monday that it might not be possible to identify all 150 people who died in Tuesday’s crash in the French Alps. In the crash of an Air Algerie plane in Mali last year, the institute was able to identify 115 of the 116 victims. “The 116th we couldn’t identify because we couldn’t recover any of his remains,” Daoust said. The impact of Germanwings flight 4U9525 also occurred at a higher velocity than the Air Algerie flight. http://bit.ly/1EXFKjZ
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