Toll in Reno Airliner Crash Raised to 68
A coroner’s team armed with dental charts and fingerprint records set to work Wednesday identifying bodies removed from the wreckage of a charter airliner, as the final death toll in the crash of the “gamblers’ special” was put at 68.
The number of dead in the crash of Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 was officially raised from 67 after officials discovered that two bags containing victims’ remains had been given the same number when they were removed from the wreckage, Coroner Vern McCarty said. Three passengers survived the crash on Monday.
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