Abstract

The interest in my recent column1 on the ethical and public policy issues surrounding the industrial mass disaster in Bhopal, India, prompts me to offer the Journal readership some comments on another form of mass disaster — the airliner crash that results in hundreds of deaths. Nine years ago, I wrote a column2 on the worst air-travel disaster in history — the collision of two jumbo jets on the ground at Tenerife in the Canary Islands. I focused on the medicolegal investigation of the cause of the crash and the forensic difficulties involved in identification of the victims. In this . . .

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