by Nearly 24 years later, one of the three fatalities who was recently identified is a Palm Springs woman who was on one of the planes that flew into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Officials stated Thursday that they used sophisticated DNA verification techniques to use forensic evidence to determine the IDs.
Barbara Keating, 72, was aboard American Airlines Flight 11, which began the chaos that terrible day when it crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center just before 9 a.m., an hour after leaving Boston.
Despite frequently having only the barest traces of evidence, the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has persisted in its efforts to identify every person who died, according to the New York Post.
As the most recent individuals to be positively identified, Keating and Ryan Fitzgerald, 26, of Floral Park, New York, increased the number of World Trade Center victims whose remains have been positively identified to 1,653, according to officials. Another lady was recognized, but her name was kept secret at her family’s request, according to NPR.
Paul, Keating’s son, told NPR that persistent detectives once discovered a fragment of his mother’s ATM card. He claimed that several years later, they identified a piece of a hair brush they had discovered as belonging to her.
He mourns the loss most for his sons, who were both younger than ten when Mom passed away.
He told NPR, “My mom would never have wanted that for them.”
Los Angeles International Airport was the destination of Flight 11. Following takeovers of United Airlines Flight 175 that day, three further aircraft were lost. American Flight 77 and United Flight 93.
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According to officials, pathologists in the Office of the Medical Examiner in New York City have been using improved genetic sequencing of DNA samples to confirm the identities of victims for a number of years.
Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Jason Graham noted in a public statement that every fresh identification demonstrates the promise of science and ongoing family outreach despite the passage of time. In remembrance of the deceased, we carry on with this effort.
Approximately 1,100 fatalities, or 40% of those killed in New York, are still unidentified, he claimed, despite recent breakthroughs. The 9/11 terrorist attacks claimed 2,977 lives between New York, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
