Air India to pay Rs.75 lakh to crash victims

[Rahim]

Kochi, July 20 (IANS) The Kerala High Court Wednesday directed Air India to pay interim compensation of Rs.75 lakh each to the kin of 158 passengers who died in an air crash in Mangalore last year.

The direction was made by Justice P.R. Ramachandran Menon following a petition by the family of Mohammed Rafi, who died in the May 18 crash. The court directed Air India to pay the interim compensation in a month's time.

An Air India Express flight 812 Dubai-Mangalore overshot the runway while landing at the Bajpe airport, about 20 km from Mangalore, and caught fire after plunging about 300 metres off a cliff.

Of the 158 victims, 53 were Keralites, most of them from the northern districts of Kasargode and Kannur.

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[buddyram]

Yeah! just read the news a while ago...
quite surprised, i saw a court verdict coming so soon!!!

 

[Rahim]

^I believe if there is compensation involved, it should be huge just like this one.

 

[tkin]

Ironic isn't it? For rail accidents more people die but relatives get very little compensation, and for airplane accidents less people die but relatives are paid a quarter of a crore?? WTH is this? Is this because people who travel by air are generally much richer compared to normal folks who travel by rail?

Some justice system we have here.

 

[jetboy]

Ironic isn't it? For rail accidents more people die but relatives get very little compensation, and for airplane accidents less people die but relatives are paid a quarter of a crore?? WTH is this? Is this because people who travel by air are generally much richer compared to normal folks who travel by rail?

Some fckin justice system we have here.

I agree to that..Its a shame on the gov. It's always like the rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer

 

[buddyram]

totally agree with you all. Why r they paying 75 lakhs for a plane crash!

Whereas a railway/bus accident victims would hardly get a lakh or two, many of them wont even get the benefits properly.

 

[grinning_devil]

Be it a lakh or a crore - a person lost is lost .... a family destroyed is destroyed ....

 

[Prime_Coder]

Be it a lakh or a crore - a person lost is lost .... a family destroyed is destroyed ....

Yes, completely agree with this. This applies not only to air / rail accident, but all kinds of accidents.

 

[The Sorcerer]

They shouldn't be any cliff in the first place.

 

[mediator]

Ironic isn't it? For rail accidents more people die but relatives get very little compensation, and for airplane accidents less people die but relatives are paid a quarter of a crore?? WTH is this? Is this because people who travel by air are generally much richer compared to normal folks who travel by rail?

Some fckin justice system we have here.

Moreover, this was an international flight and hence the huge compensations.

 

[Rahim]

Be it a lakh or a crore - a person lost is lost .... a family destroyed is destroyed ....

I know but don't you think by announcing compensation, these authorities get away with faulty security arrangement and lack of decency on their part? It reminds me of how politicians announce so loudly similar payback during a calamity. Pathetic.

 

[thetechfreak]

No ammount of money can bring a person back. Money only reduces the hardships. It doesnt help improve anything.

Still its good the victims are receiving this

 

[KDroid]

75 lacs to every victim's family !!! surprising!

I've never heard of such a big compensation!

 

[Zangetsu]

Life is Priceless

 

[skeletor]

Air India is broke.

 

[Tech&ME]

^^
The whole verdict of the honorable Court is debatable.

Air India is already in huge loss and a pile of problems. They do not have the money to pay such amount of compensation that too in a small time span of only one month.

This is another political drama.

Now, AirIndia will say they do not have such amount of money with them. Then the government will jump in and give LOAN to them.... half the money will go in the babu's pocket and the rest half to the desired families.

This is how India runs its PSU's

 

[Amey408]

Moreover, this was an international flight and hence the huge compensations.

That mean u want to say who travel by plane (what ever it is international) there life more precious then a person travel by train or bus

 

[mediator]

@Amey : Tell that to our politicians. The expenses rise if the "Indian image" is at stake. Life is indeed precious irrespective of religion or region. Everyday a person dies in mumbai railways, delhi roads and a soldier to fight paki terrorists in JnK or with Maoists. Who cares for them?

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[nisargshah95]

Ironic isn't it? For rail accidents more people die but relatives get very little compensation, and for airplane accidents less people die but relatives are paid a quarter of a crore?? WTH is this? Is this because people who travel by air are generally much richer compared to normal folks who travel by rail?

Some fckin justice system we have here.

totally agree with you all. Why r they paying 75 lakhs for a plane crash!

Whereas a railway/bus accident victims would hardly get a lakh or two, many of them wont even get the benefits properly.

I agree . The big corps consider loss of life = a bit loss of money. They do not take it seriously anymore because of the commonness of these accidents. Ever since Mamta's rule as Railway Minister, God knows how many accidents occured... one just occured recently...

 

[sygeek]

Ironic isn't it? For rail accidents more people die but relatives get very little compensation, and for airplane accidents less people die but relatives are paid a quarter of a crore?? WTH is this? Is this because people who travel by air are generally much richer compared to normal folks who travel by rail?

Some justice system we have here.

Train is full of thousands of people, while in planes there are literally a hundred or more people. I don't think it's injustice. Have you ever really travelled in a plane? Well, most of the people aren't rich, at least to the people I've seen or talked with. Some are on a package with companies while some are sent officially for business purposes. 2/10 of the plane consists of rich people, rest of the richy richies people travel in much better planes available.

I don't think it's injustice, it's just not possible to donate every damn victim a sum of money, but I do agree that victims of train accident should be donated a little more than that. Poor people are used to their living, if they were given such amount of money they would become much richer than you (some may even misuse this privilege), while the plane victims need such amount of money to balance their lifestyle back to normal.