A Palm Springs woman aboard one of the airliners that crashed into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, is one of the three victims who has been newly identified almost 24 years later.
Officials determined the IDs through forensic evidence using advanced DNA verification methods, they confirmed Thursday.
Barbara Keating, 72, was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 11, which slammed into the World Trade Center’s North Tower shortly before 9 a.m. within an hour of departing Boston, marking the start of the mayhem that fateful day.
According to the New York Post, the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has continued to try to determine the identities of all those who perished, despite in many cases having only bare minimum trace evidence.
Keating, along with Ryan Fitzgerald, 26, of Floral Park, New York, were the latest people positively identified, bringing the total number of World Trade Center victims whose remains have been ID’d to 1,653, officials said. According to NPR, another woman was identified, but her name was withheld at the request of her family.
Keating’s son, Paul, told NPR that dogged investigators at one point found a piece of his mother’s ATM card. Many years later, they determined that part of a hair brush they found was hers, he said.
He laments the loss particularly for his sons, both under the age of 10 when she died.
“There’s no way my mom would have wanted that for them,” he told NPR.
Flight 11 had been bound for Los Angeles International Airport. Three other airliners were lost that day following takeovers – United Airlines Flight 175. United Flight 93 and American Flight 77.
New York City’s Office of the Medical Examiner’s pathologists have, over the last several years, relied on enhanced genetic sequencing of DNA recoveries to verify victims’ identities, officials said.
“Each new identification testifies to the promise of science and sustained outreach to families despite the passage of time,” Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Jason Graham said in a public statement. “We continue this work as our way of honoring the lost.”
Despite recent successes, he said around 1,100 victims, or 40% of those killed in New York, remain unidentified. Between New York, Washington, D.C. and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, 2,977 died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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