ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Page Count: 7

Dental Identification of Disaster Victims by a Dental Disaster Squad
Luntz, LL
Lieutenant, State Police Surgeon, Connecticut State Police, Conn.

Luntz, P

(Received 1 August 1971; accepted 8 September 1971)

Abstract

On 7 June 1971, an Allegheny Airlines twin-engine turboprop Convair 580, flying from Groton, Connecticut, and destined for Newport News, Virginia, crashed a mile short of Tweed-New Haven Airport while attempting to make a scheduled 9:52 a.m. landing at New Haven, Connecticut. As it had emerged from a low lying fog bank 25 ft above Long Island Sound, the aircraft, carrying twenty-eight passengers and three crew members, had sheared through high tension wires and three unoccupied beach houses, exploded, and burst into flames. The blaze required the concerted effort of the fire departments of several towns to extinguish.

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Paper ID: JFS10115J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS10115J
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