Identifying Alps crash dead a huge task

A helicopter of the French Gendarmerie flies over the crash site of the Germanwings Airbus A320 that crashed in the French Alps, above the town of Seyne-les-Alpes, southeastern France. Picture: Sebastien Nogier

A helicopter of the French Gendarmerie flies over the crash site of the Germanwings Airbus A320 that crashed in the French Alps, above the town of Seyne-les-Alpes, southeastern France. Picture: Sebastien Nogier

Published Mar 30, 2015

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Paris - The identification of the victims of last week's Germanwings crash could take up to four months, the head of the research institute carrying out the work told dpa Monday.

“Subject to the number of body parts that have been found, the time frame can fluctuate between at least two and four months,” said Francois Daoust of the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie in Pontoise near Paris.

“It is better to work to the rhythm of science than to rush ahead and run the risk of making mistakes in the identification,” he said.

Sapa-dpa

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