Axa to Appeal Air France Compensation Ruling

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Loading ... Loading ... Posted on: March 16th, 2010 by George Roberts

On Thursday, a judge ruled that Air France would have to pay more than $1 million (2 million reais) in compensation to the family of a passenger who died when an aircraft crashed last year, which was one of the biggest aviation disasters off the coast of Brazil in years. Flight 447 to Paris from Rio de Janeiro plunged into the Atlantic on June 1, killing all 228 passenger and crew on board.

A 41-year-old prosecutor by the name of Marcelle Lima was on board the flight, and she had been financially supporting her parents, who were dependent on her income. Judge Mauro Nicolau ordered Air France to pay the prosecutor’s two siblings in 500,000 reais per month payments in the form of moral damages.

However, Axa, the insurance company for the airline, says that they don’t agree with the ruling and are planning to appeal the order. In a statement they said that the compensation needs to be determined by the committee created after the crash to define the criteria for fair compensation. This committee is made up of associations of victims’ families, insurers and the government in Brazil.

Meanwhile, it is still unknown why the accident happened, and it will remain a mystery until the plane’s black box is found. This is the first time in 30 years that a black box hasn’t been recovered from a plane after it crashed, and international investigators have been helping with the search.

They aren’t stopping the search yet, though. In their third attempt to find the box, they will have a team of robots comb the area where the crash happened, which spans 800 square miles. This is set to start next week on March 25.

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