More Concorde Victims Reach Settlement
B E R L I N, July 13 -- A German lawyer representing around a dozen relatives of people who died in last year's Air France Concorde crash said today they have reached a settlement for damages with the airline.
The announcement by attorney Burkhard Koetke followed asettlement in May involving a larger group of relatives.
Koetke, who in January filed a lawsuit against the airline inNew York, said the suit was withdrawn after they agreed on a sum of"several million" with representatives of Air France insurers LaReunion Aerienne.
"The individual sums differ according to the relationship andpersonal closeness to the victims," Koetke said in a statement,which gave no details of the sums involved. Koetke wasn'timmediately available for comment.
The lawyer said the agreement also involved the jet'smanufacturers.
Almost One Year Ago
The New York-bound Concorde went down July 25 near Paris,killing 113 people. Many of the 109 people on the plane were Germantourists.
Relatives of the majority of the German passengers accepted ahefty compensation offer in May. Their lawyers, who say theyrepresent 75 victims' families and a total of 400 relatives, didn'tgo to court.
Attorneys refused to release details of that settlement, butnews reports in France and Germany have said the total compensationamounted to roughly $100 million.
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