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Venezuelan businessman Ricardo Albacete Vidal has filed a lawsuit against the airline LaMia and an insurance company for $ 13 million in court in Bolivia due to the accident plane crash in Colombia with the Brazilian football club Chapecoense.
"We do not want more delaying allegations, we simply want the LaMia company, together with its insurer Bisa, to comply with insurance benefits granted under air navigation policies," revealed Allegation presented by Albacete through the intermediary of a local lawyer. Tuesday by the newspaper El Deber of the city of Santa Cruz (east).
According to the file filed in front of a civilian judge in Santa Cruz, where are the offices of Lamia, the lawsuit is due to damages for some 13 million dollars, said the tabloid.
Albacete Vidal, based in Spain, is considered the sole legal owner of the Avro RJ85 jet that crashed on Colombian land, as well as two other similar vessels held in Bolivia and leased to LaMia.
On November 28, 2016, the Bolivian LaMia plane rushed shortly before arriving at the Colombian airport José María Córdova (Rio Negro, about 20 km from Medellin). The Brazilian delegation Chapecoense was competing for its first international final against Atletico Nacional, for Copa Sudamericana.
The accident killed 71 people, including 19 players, 14 members of the technical committee and nine officials of the Brazilian club. Only six occupants survived: an air hostess, an aviation technician, a journalist and three players.
An investigation by the Colombian authorities concluded that the vessel had fallen for lack of fuel.
The insurance company BISA had previously indicated that the coverage of the policy was refused and that the ship, the day it had suffered the loss, had no insurance in force. For its part, LaMia intervened in court and stopped conducting air operations.
Bolivian pilots Alejandro Quiroga – dead in the accident – and Marco Antonio Rocha – currently on the run – were represented as representatives of LaMia.
In addition, the families of the victims of the accident filed in October in Bolivia a complaint against the Authority for Supervision and Supervision of Pensions and Insurance (APS) in order to prevent the. expiry of the possibility of receiving compensation.
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