In the context of mass casualty incidents, it is common for first responders to encounter problems with locating and transporting dead bodies to the mortuary due to the challenging disaster site and huge number of victims involved. Delayed arrival of the deceased at the mortuary however will possibly result in body decomposition causing victim identification difficult. Technology advancement has revolutionised the role of drones in disaster operations, which can be used to optimise and speed up the victim identification process. However, there has been a dearth of research pertaining to drone applications in retrieving secondary identifiers found on dead victims. Hence, this study aims to demonstrate the use of drone in mass disaster victim identification, capturing the image of secondary identifiers on site at a practical range of height and optical zoom lens. A high-end drone namely DJI Matrice 300 RTK was deployed in this study. The analysis showed that an optimum level of 50 m height with 20x zoom lens produced the best results with respects to image quality and orientations, determined by a scoring card specifically designed for this study. Currently, involvement of drone technology in disaster victim identification is restricted to search and rescue of living victims, rather than search and recovery of dead bodies followed by the identification process. Thus, this study highlights the novelty of using drone to capture real-time image of secondary identifiers in situ which would enhance the disaster victim identification operations.