Brannon Robert B, Morlang William M, Smith Brion C
Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology Department, Louisiana State University School of Dentistry, New Orleans, LA 70119, USA.
J Forensic Sci. 2003 Nov;48(6):1331-5.
The authors record the contributions of dentistry to the identification of victims of one of the most significant disasters in aviation and U.S. military history--the December 1985 crash of a DC-8 charter airliner near Gander, Newfoundland (now known as Newfoundland and Labrador), Canada, which killed 248 Army personnel and 8 crewmembers. Most of the dental records of the military victims were destroyed in the crash, and, as a result, this loss hampered dental identification. Nevertheless, dental identification was the primary means of identification for many because a very high percentage of the bodies were severely burned and fragmented. Many phases of the U.S. identification efforts have been reported, but the dental-investigation aspects have been mentioned only in passing. Therefore, this article documents the dental team's organization, methodology, and a variety of remarkable problems that the team encountered.
作者记录了牙科在识别航空和美国军事历史上最重大灾难之一的遇难者身份方面所做的贡献。1985年12月，一架DC - 8包机在加拿大纽芬兰（现称纽芬兰与拉布拉多）甘德附近坠毁，造成248名陆军人员和8名机组人员死亡。大多数军事遇难者的牙科记录在坠机事故中被毁，因此，这一损失阻碍了通过牙科进行身份识别。然而，由于极高比例的尸体被严重烧伤和肢解，牙科识别仍是许多遇难者身份识别的主要手段。美国身份识别工作的许多阶段都有报道，但牙科调查方面只是顺带提及。因此，本文记录了牙科团队的组织、方法以及该团队遇到的各种显著问题。
