DNA Tests Likely for TWA Crash Remains

Unidentified remains of TWA Flight 800 victims are likely to undergo costly DNA testing in an effort to match them with the 15 people still unaccounted for who were killed when the Paris-bound jumbo jet exploded in midair off Long Island’s south shore in July. A spokesman for the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory in Rockville, Md., said it will be up to the Pentagon to formally approve Suffolk County’s request for the tests and make funding arrangements. But he said the lab has been “sort of on standby” in the case. Medical examiner Dr. Charles Wetli had angered families of the victims by refusing to agree to conduct nuclear DNA tests, which cost about $600 each.