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A man carries a debris on his head at the scene of the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines flight to Nairobi, near Bishoftu, a town about 60 km southeast of Nairobi. 39, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 10 March 2019. PHOTO | AFP
The number of Kenyans killed in the plane crash of Ethiopian Airlines on March 10 has risen from 32 to 36, said Sunday Deputy Ambbadador George Orina.
The Boeing aircraft, registered B-737-800MAX and ET-AVJ, had just taken off from Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa when it crashed at Bishoftu.
All aboard – 149 pbadengers and eight crew members – died.
Mr. Orina explained that "the number has been revised since the four traveled on pbadports of other nationalities."
It did not reveal the identity of the four but indicated that at least 30 families had already been registered.
A SERVICE
Meanwhile, a service in the honor of the victims will take place Sunday in the Ethiopian capital.
The Chief Foreign Secretary, Macharia Kamau, is one of the dignitaries who will attend the service at the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
For service and burials, the airlines offered grieving bags of earth from the scene of the accident.
"Families can recover land at the scene of the accident and a letter from Ethiopian Airlines attesting the same for customs clearance at the airport," was published by the airline to inform the families of the victims. Sunday Nation bed in part.
According to the BBC, relatives were asked to provide DNA samples in Addis Ababa or at one of the airlines' overseas offices.
Death certificates should be issued in two weeks, while DNA badysis could take up to six months.
COMPENSATION
When the families returned home on Saturday, it appeared that they could receive between 17 and 25 million shillings for each person who died in the accident.
This will be guided by the Montreal Convention, according to which compensation is only granted if the pbadenger is injured or died as a result of an unforeseen or unusual event or an event occurring outside the pbadenger.
The convention provides for two scenarios. The first provides for minimal compensation, namely that each pbadenger must be compensated as long as he is injured or died in the aircraft.
Currently, this amount is approximately $ 170,000 per pbadenger, which corresponds to about Shsh 17 million at current exchange rates.
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