So in round terms let’s do the math on this and see where the money goes:
US govt penalty. $244M. 10%
Airline customers $1800M. 70%
Victims $500M. 20%
What do we make of that?
1. The US govt, of which the culpable FAA is a part, pockets $244M pure profit from the crashes.
2. The max customers who didn't have crashes (I assume Lion and Ethiopia don’t count) get 70% even though they had no direct involvement
3. The 346 victim’s estates get $500M or $1.44M each
And just to note that the 346 victims consists of pax and crew so hopefully the families of the pilots who fought the beast are also compensated, assuming of course that the US funds ever make it to Ethiopia and Indonesia.