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Compensation agreed for the families of the UTA crash victims

Paris, France - USD 1m per family

Guillame Denoix de Saint-Marc, spokesman for the families of 177 DC-10 UTA victims crashed in the Niger desert (see AVIONEWS), has announced that today in Paris the compensation has been fixed. Each family will receive USD 1m, divided into four installments; Lybia has to pay now USD 42.5m in total and the rest within the next 6 moths. France will decide upon the faith of the 6 Lybians sentenced to...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 56873
Rome, Italy, 01/09/2004 12:31
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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