TY - JOUR
T1 - The Mangalore aircrash of 22 May 2010
T2 - practical problems related to identification of the dead in a populous developing country.
AU - Menezes, Ritesh G.
AU - Shetty, B. Suresh Kumar
AU - Rastogi, Prateek
AU - Padubidri, Jagadish Rao
AU - Babu, Y. P.Raghavendra
AU - Nagesh, K. R.
AU - D'Souza, Deepak Herald
AU - Shetty, Mahabalesh
AU - Monteiro, Francis N.P.
AU - Dsouza, Haneil Larson
PY - 2012/12/1
Y1 - 2012/12/1
N2 - It was a sad and emotional moment for the citizens of Mangalore, India when the "Dubai to Mangalore" Air India Express Boeing 737-800 flight IX-812 crashed at the Mangalore International Airport on 22 May 2010, killing 158 people on board. Identification of the victims was difficult as most of the bodies were charred beyond easy recognition. The practical problems faced by the legal authorities in identifying the charred victims in a populous and developing country like India are discussed in this paper.
AB - It was a sad and emotional moment for the citizens of Mangalore, India when the "Dubai to Mangalore" Air India Express Boeing 737-800 flight IX-812 crashed at the Mangalore International Airport on 22 May 2010, killing 158 people on board. Identification of the victims was difficult as most of the bodies were charred beyond easy recognition. The practical problems faced by the legal authorities in identifying the charred victims in a populous and developing country like India are discussed in this paper.
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U2 - 10.1258/mlj.2012.012015
DO - 10.1258/mlj.2012.012015
M3 - Article
C2 - 23341294
AN - SCOPUS:84875905690
SN - 0025-8172
VL - 80
SP - 151
EP - 154
JO - Medico-Legal Journal
JF - Medico-Legal Journal
IS - Pt 4
ER -