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Old 23rd Jan 2013, 08:45
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Accident Report and Compensation

The draft report will be in English (as per ICAO Standards and Chicago Convention 1944, Annex 13). Ditto the final report. No public access to the draft, but Airbus and the Libyan Government will have their say over the Draft version. The families of the deceased passengers and crew will not have any say in that process.

As for compensation, there is a strict two year time limit from the date of the accident to bring claims against the airline. (Obviously the airline is insured, actually at Lloyds of London.) If the Accident report reveals an Airbus problem, then claims are still valid against them in certain countries.

This highlights the problems that families of deceased passengers and crew face when accident reports are slow to be published. The last time this happened was the Kenya Airways KQ507 at Cameroon in May 2007, when it took over 3 years for the accident report to be published.

Please PM me if you need specific advice about this accident as I am representing many of the families.
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