The insurance angle
One way or another this loss (and it is one) is going to trigger a MASSIVE insurance pay-out. There must be hordes of very nervous insurance underwriters and reinsurers currently scouring the small-print of the MAS policies.
Have there been any estimates as yet on the 'hull-loss' of a 2002 777-200ER?
It will also be interesting to see how the personal life-assurance 'relativities' for those pax from China and other ASEAN nations stack-up compared to those from other / developed nations.
Even the most conservative figures must already run into many hundreds of millions of $s. Factor in any possible negligence and the sky's the limit (excuse the pun). That is before S&R / recovery operations are factored in.
Did any 'final' figures ever get published for AF447?