New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner, 520 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA.
Illumina Inc., 5200 Illumina Way, San Diego, CA 92122, USA; Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, 106 Peacekeeper Drive, Bldg. 301D, Offutt AFB, NE 68113, USA.
Forensic Sci Int. 2022 Nov;340:111440. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2022.111440. Epub 2022 Aug 23.
This analysis focuses on the identification efforts conducted by the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner (NYC OCME) over a 20-year period from September 11, 2001 to September 11, 2021. Due to this unprecedented level of commitment to victim identification, a wealth of data has been collected over the two-decade period and is still being collected as identification efforts are ongoing. The results of this data analysis are not only informative for the World Trade Center (WTC) victims, but may also be instructional for other large-scale, protracted victim identification efforts. Based on available data, most victims are associated with the impact zones and higher in both towers. No correlation was observed in the overall identification rates based on last known location in the buildings, suggesting that location in the towers does not affect the likelihood of a successful identification. There was, however, a significant difference in the body completeness values observed for victims from the upper floors compared to those below the impact zones. The identification rates and body completeness values for victims onboard the two airplanes are significantly different from each other, possibly related to the varying aircraft speeds at the time of impact.
本分析重点关注纽约市首席法医办公室（NYC OCME）在 2001 年 9 月 11 日至 2021 年 9 月 11 日的 20 年期间所进行的鉴定工作。由于对受害者识别工作的空前投入，在这二十年期间收集了大量的数据，并且随着识别工作的持续进行，仍在不断收集数据。这项数据分析的结果不仅对世界贸易中心（WTC）受害者具有重要意义，对于其他大规模、长期的受害者识别工作也具有指导意义。根据现有数据，大多数受害者与双塔的撞击区及以上区域有关。在建筑物中最后已知位置的基础上，总体识别率没有相关性，这表明在塔内的位置并不影响成功识别的可能性。然而，在撞击区以下楼层的受害者和高层受害者的身体完整度值观察到了显著差异。在两架飞机上的受害者的识别率和身体完整度值有显著差异，这可能与撞击时飞机速度的不同有关。
