Court orders compensation for Yak-42 families

Court orders compensation for Yak-42 families
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By h.b. - Mar 12, 2010 - 12:45 PM
62 Spanish military died when the Yak-42 transport plane crashed in Turkey in 2002

Families of the accident victims in court in Zaragoza - EFE

Instruction court 2 in Zaragoza has ordered the Ukranian Mediterranean Airlines, the BUSIN Joint Stock Insurance company, and the German contractors Chapman Freeborn to pay 6.125 million € in compensation to the families of those killed by the crash of the Yak-42 military plane.

62 people died in the accident on May 26, 2002 in Trabzon, Turkey, as the plane was bringing soldiers back from Afghanistan.

The order is the second civil proceeding to be brought, following an earlier ruling from the Zaragoza Provincial Court which accepted an appeal from Chapman Freeborn for the charges against it to be cancelled. The first case had ordered the companies responsible for the flight to pay some 10 million € to the families of the dead.

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