Five More Air Crash Victims Identified
The Los Angeles County coroner’s office Saturday identified five more victims of the Aug. 31 collision between an Aeromexico DC-9 and a light plane, bringing the total of officially confirmed deaths to 59.
Coroner’s spokesman Bill Gold said the five, all passengers on the jetliner, were C. Rosalia Diaz Hernandez, 23, of Mexico City; Jesus Reyes, 37, of Puebla, Mexico; Raul Leanos, 13, of San Jose; Maria G. Pena, 37, of Van Nuys, and Donald Wong, 46, of West Covina.
Gold said Hernandez was a flight attendant on the jet, and Wong was a medical doctor.
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