Body Retrieval and Morgue Operation at the Crash of United Flight 232

• NCJ Number: 128906
• Journal: Journal of Forensic Sciences Volume: 36 Issue: 2 Dated: (March 1991) Pages: 403-409
• Author(s): B Randall
• Date Published: 1991
• Length: 7 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Research (Applied/Empirical)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Presented at the 42nd annual meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Cincinnati, Ohio, February 19-24, 1990.

Annotation

On July 19, 1989, Unite Airlines Flight 232, a wide-bodied DC-10, crashlanded in Sioux City, Iowa, ultimately resulting in 112 deaths.

Abstract

By using the first several hours after the crash to preplan carefully and to walk through the entire body recovery and morgue procedure mentally, the disaster management team was able to process the fatalities from Flight 232 expeditiously. The team also prepared a rigid system of data management for the morgue which allowed the staff to collate and process large volumes of information without significant error or mismatched records. 5 figures and 3 references (Author abstract)