A Missing Plane

I remember reading this in the New Yorker when it came out. It should have more readers, especially since forensic anthropology is a hot topic on the tube these days. A book with a hero (the anthropologist whose meticulous labors gave a name to every one of 22 heaps of miscellaneous bones) and a villain (the cocksure and slapdash pilot who snuffed out the lives of these 22 young men, his own included).

MIA Search and Recovery in Papua New Guinea.
Deals with one aircraft and large passenger compliment