The corpse, shot in the face, could not be identified.
In 2000, however, they publicly revealed doubts about whether the corpse was correctly identified.
He was killed in action and his corpse was subsequently identified.
More than 424 corpses were retrieved from the wreckage and officially identified.
A further 135 corpses could not be identified.
His headless corpse was positively identified by American experts only last week.
But only a few families were granted such relief, and officials said that some corpses might never be identified.
It is only through the rings on his hand that the corpse can be identified.
In 2008, the corpses of 300 victims were identified and 600 more during the following year.
The corpse was identified by a piece of skin from its abdomen; the head, limbs, and skeleton were never recovered.