The Star-Ledger -- BETHLEHEM, N.Y. -- The body of an Army helicopter pilot killed Saturday in Iraq was recovered from the crash site, a family spokesman said yesterday after an Internet video showed insurgents dragging the burning body of what they said was a U.S. pilot across the ground.

James and Mary Ellen Moshier expect to have a funeral for Capt. Timothy Moshier next Wednesday at a church in his hometown, just outside Albany, the spokesman said.

"They were told by the Army that his body had been recovered," said Jay Gallagher, a family friend and the bureau chief for Gannett News Service in Albany. They were waiting for word of when his body would be delivered to Dover Air Force Base, he said.

The Pentagon said Moshier and Chief Warrant Officer Michael Hartwick of Orrick, Mo., were killed when their AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopter crashed Saturday. The military confirmed earlier that an Apache crashed about 5:30 p.m. (9:30 a.m. EST), possibly due to hostile fire west of Youssifiyah while conducting a combat air patrol. Youssifiyah is about 10 miles southwest of Baghdad.

About 24 hours after the crash, the military released a statement saying the pilots were "presumed dead" and that recovery efforts were under way, indicating they had not fully secured the site or retrieved the bodies.

Yesterday, the military confirmed that the two pilots had died and it had recovered "all available remains found on the scene, given the catastrophic nature of the crash."

The video posted on the Internet yesterday in the name of an extremist group claimed to show Iraqi insurgents dragging the body of a U.S. pilot on the ground. Parts of the video were blurry, and the face of the man being dragged was not shown. His clothes were so tattered that it was impossible to tell if he was wearing an American military uniform.

The U.S. military condemned the posting and said the authenticity of the video could not be confirmed.

Gallagher said Moshier's parents would not speak to the media. "They're still in really bad shape," he said.

"You've got to give them space, give them time. They don't want anything to do with the press right now," said Devon Anderson, the Moshiers' son-in-law.

Moshier, who graduated from Bethlehem High School in 1998, graduated from West Point in 2002. He is survived by his wife, Katherine, and 10-month-old daughter, Natalie. He had been living in Texas, stationed at Fort Hood, before deploying in December.

"He was a really good kid," said Gallagher, who has lived next door to the family since 1984. "It's almost a cliché. He was a big, gentle guy who was a good student, who always tried to do the right thing."

An American flag flew from the porch of the family's split-level house in a quiet suburban cul-de-sac yesterday.

"I guess he exemplified what growing up all of us aspired to be," said Dave Austin, a lifelong friend. "I was talking to him when he graduated from West Point, it was his commitment to duty he was most proud of."