Rescuers Find Final Air Crash Victim on Colombian Ridge
Rescuers on Sunday found the remains of a 9-year-old New Jersey boy, the last missing victim of an American Airlines plane crash that killed at least 160 people, a Red Cross official said.
The body of Michael Claros, of Hillsborough, N.J., was discovered on the mountain ridge where the Boeing 757 crashed Dec. 20 as it descended toward the southwestern city of Cali. Four people and a dog survived.
The dead included Michael’s mother and sister.
Ruling out sabotage and mechanical failure, Colombian officials released a report suggesting that human error by the pilot caused the plane to veer off course and crash.
The U.S. attorney general’s office is investigating whether negligence by Cali air traffic controllers was responsible.
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