A 72-year-old Palm Springs woman aboard one of the airliners that crashed into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, was identified through forensic evidence using advanced DNA verification methods, officials confirmed Thursday.
Barbara Keating was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 11, which authorities say slammed into the North Tower shortly before 9 a.m. within an hour of departing Boston, marking the start of airborne mayhem that fateful day.
According to the New York Post, the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has continued investigations over the last 24 years to ascertain the identities of all those who perished, despite in many cases having only bare minimum trace evidence.
Keating, along with 26-year-old Ryan Fitzgerald of Floral Park, New York, were the latest casualties positively identified, bringing the total number of World Trade Center victims whose remains have been publicly confirmed to 1,653, officials said.
Keating’s son, Paul, told a media outlet that his mother suffered many losses when she was killed, including “all the moments (she) could have had” with her grandchildren.
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 — according to federal investigators.
“As a former law enforcement officer who served our city on 9/11, I understand deeply the feeling of loss so many families have experienced,” New York Mayor Eric Adams said. “We hope the families receiving answers from the Office of Chief Medical Examiner can take solace in the city’s tireless dedication to this mission.”
The 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 City, remain unidentified.
Hell it took him 50 years to figure this shit out man. Just think how stupid they’ll be in another 50 years. How they’ve already made that total up today.
They are the most incompetent fucking agency of the justice system of America today.
Each and every one of them received an offshore bank account they’re all a complete fucking fraud against the nation.
And the very few people that are left in America need to start fucking standing up and putting this fraud in the fucking prison cell.
Deport the cons with no idea
“No ID” No Concealed Weapons Permit, No Driver License. No graduation from the police academy or Sheriff’s Academy or even the FBI or the fire department or the ambulance service.
All why they’re making $30 million dollars a day and how they always get an increase when they start a new fire
Being able to speak into a microphone is a great thing but having the fucking phone type out the shit that you say is so fucking even worse thing to do.
That is crazy.