Indonesian Airline To Give US $55,000 To Relatives Of Crash Victims
An Indonesian airline will give families US $55,000 for each of the 96 passengers on a jetliner that crashed into the sea on New Year’s Day, an airline official said Tuesday.The Adam Air Boeing 737 fell off radars halfway through a two-hour flight from the main island of Java to Sulawesi island. The pilot was forced to twice change course because of rough weather, but the cause of the crash is not yet clear.
No mayday was issued and the flight data recorders have not yet been recovered, investigators say.
“We are waiting for relatives of the passengers to submit all the necessary data and information,” said Adam Air spokesman Ali Leonardi. “We’ll deliver the money as soon as we can after that.”
Relatives will receive US $55,000 for each Flight KI-574 passenger, he said. Families of crew members will also be compensated, he added, without providing any details.
The plane crashed into the Makassar Strait on Jan. 1, but while sections of the tail, food trays, life vests, pieces of tire and small parts of fuselage have been found, no bodies have been recovered.