Insurance payments for the families of the passengers killed in the Oct 31 1999 crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 will average about $472000 Carrier officials.

Insurance payments for the families of the passengers killed in the Oct 31 1999 crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 will average about $472000 Carrier officials, quot in Cairo pres accounts Jan. 22 said insurance payments will range between $89-$116 million. Taking the mid-point of this range, dividing at the 217 victims, yields an average adjustment of around half a million dollars. While the amount may assume low by Western standards, Egypt's gros domestic issue (GDP) hovers around $2,900 by capita. In this context, the average discharge for Egyptian families represents a small fortune. As a point of comparison, the statistical value of a life in the U is $27 million.

in a less degree than the 1929 Warsaw Convention, U court jurisdiction, and the potential for significantly greater recoveries, is merely available to the families of those passengers who bought and paid for their tickets in the U The just discovered so-called Montreal Convention, which eliminates caps forward liability, has not yet gone into effect

Recoveries nurse to be significantly smaller in many foreign countries; Japan is the notable exception, with average pacifications of about $2.8 million. In the wake of the fatal 1997 crash of a SilkAir B737 20 families received payments of $332000 The families of those killed in the 1996 crash of a Birgenair B757 received a paltry $20000 (the Warsaw cap), although Boeing [BA] made payments of $42000 to the victims' families, and more to widows with demonstration of economic damages.

Shortly after the Flight 990 crash, EgyptAir officials promised up-front payments to the families. Swissair, American Airlines [AMR] and Crossair made of the like kind payments after the crashes of their respective airplanes in 1998 1999 and three weeks ago this year. To the best of our knowledge, EgyptAir has not followed within on its original promise of advance payments. Had this accident occurr within the countries of the European Union, advance payments of 15000 ECU ($20000) would have been required from law within 15 days of the crash.

Furthermore, in answer to the first lawsuit, EgyptAir just newly claimed sovereign immunity as a state-owned carrier against any liability.

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