Fresno, Calif. ? Jeanne Pyle hopes she may finally find out what happened to her brother, who has been missing since his military plane crashed during World War II.

She believes there’s a chance that the well-preserved remains of an airman found this month in a Sierra Nevada glacier were those of her brother.

Pyle, 85, remembers her brother, Cadet Ernest Munn, as a handsome, 6-foot-4 man with blond hair and blue eyes. He was among four airmen who died when their navigational training plane crashed after leaving a Sacramento, Calif., airfield in November 1942. None of the members of that flight was ever found.

Mountain climbers found the remains on Oct. 16 in California’s Kings Canyon National Park, the head and arm jutting out of the receding glacier. The body was in an Army uniform, and the hair was blond. It was flown Monday to Hickam Air Force Base on Oahu, Hawaii, where it is being examined at the Joint POW-MIA Accounting Command for identification.