TransAsia offers record crash compensation
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TAIWAN’S TransAsia Airways said yesterday it had offered record compensation to the families of passengers killed in a domestic plane crash, the cause of which still remains unclear.
The offer of T$14.9 million (US$496,667) was made to representatives of the 48 victims.
Flight GE222 carrying 54 passengers and four crew crashed last month near the airport in Penghu, a group of scenic islands in the Taiwan Strait.
The victims’ representatives did not accept the offer immediately but agreed to give it further consideration.
“As the owner of the plane, we’d like to take responsibility for the deaths and injuries even though the responsibility for the accident has yet to be clarified,” said TransAsia Airways President Chooi Yee-Chong.
The airline said the compensation would be a record for Taiwan.
The plane crashed into houses after an aborted landing. It also left 10 people injured, some of them badly.
The ATR 72-500 propeller plane was making a second attempt to land after aborting the first during thunder and heavy rain as Typhoon Matmo pounded Taiwan. Five people on the ground were also injured in the crash. Angry relatives have blamed the authorities for the disaster, questioning why the plane was cleared to fly in bad weather.
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