Dana Begins Payment of $70,000 To Victims

 
According to Daily Times

The management of Dana Air today said it has commenced the final payment of 70,000 dollars (about N10.5 million) to families of each of the victims of its June 3 Lagos air crash.

Mr Tony Usidamen, Head of Corporate Communications, Dana Air, made the disclosure. It will be recalled that a Dana air flight from Abuja to Lagos crashed on June 3 at Iju-Ishaga, Lagos, killing all 153 persons aboard, and some others on the ground.

 Usidamen explained that 70,000 dollars was being paid to each of the families of the victims by Prestige Assurance Ltd., Insurer of Dana Air. “The final payment is necessary after the advance payments of 30,000 dollars (about N4.7 million) to over 80 families,” he said and noted that the Civil Aviation Act stipulated that the sum of 100,000 U.S. dollars, about N15 million, be paid as compensation tofamilies of victims of air disasters.

 “Following receipt of Letter of Authentication from the Probate Registry, our insurer has begun balance payment of 70,000 U.S. dollars to affected families. Only four other families have so far, presented the requisite Grant of Probate or Letter of Administration, and payment will shortly be made to them too. In order to assess and verify full compensation, it is necessary for claimants to produce the required Grants of Probate or Letters of Administration,” he said.

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Dana's Insurer, Llyods of London, to Pay Adequate Compensations

 

Reps of Llyods of London, the group insurer of Dana Air, said at a news conference yesterday that it would pay adequate compensations to the families of the victims of the Dana air crash. The reps said compensations would be paid to the victims families, according to aviation standards.

The international law and standards stipulate that the sum of 30,000 dollars (N4.6 million) must be paid to each of the victims' family within the first 30 days of the accident, as initial payment.

A sealing of 100,000 dollars (N15 million) should be paid to the victims family after they must have completed all the requirements expected of them by the law. The rep said.

The compensation would be for the families of the passengers and those on the ground. They've asked family members of the victims to come up with evidence to proof their claims that link them with the deceased.

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Dana Air Crash: Relatives of Dead Passengers to Receive $100,000 (N16m)

 
The management of Dana Air, is expected to pay not less than $100,000.00 as insurance claims for each of the 153 passengers who died during the incident. This is in line with the requirement of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
The expected compensation regime is also  in line with the the standard set by the ICAO, Montreal Convention, which a few years ago raised the compensation to $100,000.00 from the $10,000.00 stipulated by ICAO, according to the Warsaw Convention.

Also, DANA Air is expected to pay $250,000.00 respectively to the families of the two pilots, as compensation, while, the six crew members’ will each be paid $150,000.00 each.

However, the Government agency have begun DNA tests for the 148 Dana crash victims who are already being taken to Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) morgue in Ikeja in order to allow their relatives to identify them.According to a Federal Road Safety Commission spokesman Jonas Agwu gave the details of the recovered bodies as males 88, females 48 and children 12.

He noted the recovery of  bodies would continue today. The General Manager of the Lagos State Emergency Management Authority (LASEMA), Dr Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, said the DNA test is very important for victims who burnt beyond recongnitions.

He said the tests were being carried out at LASUTH.

The bodies were taken to the morgues at  LASUTH and the Mainland General Hospital. An official said the identified bodies were tagged.  Another FRSC official Mr. Fatai Adesina Bakare stated that, “We have also recovered a number of personal effects, like handbags, traveler’s bags, shoes, combs and cash.

“We have, for instance, an identity card of an employee of NNPC, and from his purse, we recovered some cash, and business cards, which have been lodged. We also recovered a woman’s a purse containing $114 and N4,000 cash.”

“We have created a desk where all those personal effects are been documented and officials who are in charge would do justice to them and ensure that it gets to family members of the victims safely.”
 
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