PARIS (AFP)--Air France (AF.FR) is to receive an insurance check
of EUR67.4 million for the loss of its Airbus A330 over the
Atlantic, one of its insurers said Monday.
The crashed aircraft was covered by several insurers including
Axa Corporate Solutions, which is to pay out 12.5% of the total
bill, or EUR8.4 million, a spokeswoman for the insurance firm
said.
Under the terms of the Montreal Convention, the carrier Air
France is also responsible for compensating the families of the 228
people lost in the June 1 Rio de Janerio to Paris crash, and has
separate insurance for the cost of doing so.
Asked about compensation for relatives, the Axa spokeswoman said
it was "too soon to give a realistic figure."
She said: "All entitled persons have yet to come forward, and as
a result it has not yet been possible to evaluate the totality of
individual situations."
Brazilian and French navy crews have so far recovered the bodies
of 44 crash victims off Brazil's coast.
Speculation surrounding the crash has focused on the Airbus
A330's airspeed sensors, known as pitot probes, which may have
malfunctioned.