Abstract
ABSTRACTIn June 1993, a Cessna 404 aircraft crashed and burned at Hassai Airstrip, Sudan while attempting an emergency landing. Eleven people on board were killed. The remains of E.H., a driller from Burnaby, B.C., Canada, were identified by local authorities and repatriated to Canada for burial. Dental examination of the body by Canadian experts revealed many gross discrepancies compared to antemortem records of the alleged decedent. Therefore, this could not be the body of E.H. Through the efforts of a British Columbia coroner, it was suspected that the body of a Sudanese national had been substituted. Fragments from burned and traumatically fractured upper and lower front teeth in the body sent to Canada were reconstructed by an odontologist using endodontic (root canal) K-files. This allowed a dental technician to simulate the dental appearance and a forensic artist to complete a facial reproduction based on photographs of the skull. This reproduction will be presented to foreign authorities to gain p...
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