Forensic teams using dental records to identify India crash victims

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A forensic dentist in India said on Friday (June 13) that his team was collecting dental records as means to identify the bodies of victims killed in the Air India crash a day earlier.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00A forensic dentist in India said on Friday that his team was collecting dental records as means

00:08to identify the bodies of victims killed in the Air India crash a day earlier.

00:13Yesterday my dental team, thanks to the sambut of my dental college dean and the forensic

00:19medicine department, they have supported us and all the PG students in my dental college,

00:25they were all together from 3 pm till 4.30 am. We were working continuously on collecting

00:32the dental records of the victims. It is a very pathetic situation but how far the industry

00:39can help in giving justice to the identification, we are doing our best.

00:44India is a member country of Interpol. So according to Interpol, there are three primary identifiers.

00:51One is the fingerprint. Second is dental characteristics because teeth can withstand the heat.

00:58And third is the DNA. DNA is of course the gold standard.

01:02But if any one method can prove that identity is positive, I think the body can be released

01:08to the nearest of the kin so that they can perform the rituals and all.

01:13We all have taken 135 samples. We have recorded the dental records of 135 charred victims.

01:21Air India flight AI-171, a Boeing 787-8, Dreamliner with 242 people on board,

01:30was headed for Gatwick Airport, south of the British capital and crashed onto a medical college hostel on Thursday.

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