DNA Tests Completed for Crash Victims
The last DNA tests to identify remains of victims of the Alaska Airlines crash have been completed, and coroners officials are releasing them to family members.
Dr. Janice Frank, assistant chief medical examiner, said technicians with the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., have finished the identification work, which began in the days following the Jan. 31 crash of Flight 261.
Officials with the coroners office and Kenyon International Emergency Services have been notifying families when identities are learned. Out of the 88 passengers on the plane, 85 have been identified through DNA testing or other means, officials said.
The other three passengers are presumed dead, but investigators were unable to make a successful DNA match.
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