2015/03/30

Bloomberg Business March 27, 2015: Crash Victims’ Body Parts Sorted in Alps Ravine by Police

In a ravine in the French Alps strewn with thousands of pieces of the crashed Germanwings plane, police painstakingly search for body parts, airlifting them to a base for their identification.

Not one corpse has been found intact, although between 400 and 600 body parts have been collected from the site and are being sent to a laboratory near Paris, Patrick Touron, deputy director of criminal research institute of the French gendarmes, said Friday in a televised press conference on site in Seyne-les-Alpes, France.

The difficulty of working on the steep alpine terrain and the impact of the crash that practically vaporised much of the plane means the process of collecting the remains of the 150 people on board may take more than two weeks, French police say.

“Imagine 150 victims, scattered over more than 2 hectares of extremely perilous mountainside,” General David Galtier told reporters in Marseille Thursday. more