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  • The mystery of Flight 4422 (Severed hand helps scientists ID victim)

    08/16/2008 8:40:51 AM PDT · by AlaskaErik · 23 replies · 343+ views
    Anchorage Daily News ^ | August 16, 2008 | By GEORGE BRYSON
    It's said that dead men tell no tales. But a severed arm and hand that emerged from a Wrangell Mountain glacier nine years ago just might -- with the help of two pilots, several forensic and genetic scientists and a raft of state and federal officials. Their combined efforts, detailed at an Anchorage press conference Friday, have determined that the human remains belong to one of the passengers on board a DC-4 airliner that slammed into the side of Mount Sanford 60 years ago last spring. More specifically, they belong to Francis Joseph Van Zandt, a 36-year-old merchant marine from...