(Beijing Comprehensive News) After nearly 10 years of loss, Malaysia Airlines MH370 passengers claimed their claims on Monday (November 27) in Beijing, the capital of China.
Comprehensive AFP and China CCTV News reported that more than 40 passengers filed a lawsuit. The defendant included Malaysia Airlines, Boeing, Boeing, British aircraft engine manufacturer, and Germany Andlian Insurance Group.
The case will be tried in the Beijing Chaoyang Court from Monday to December 6.The claims of passengers' family members are mainly concentrated on the issue of compensation and identifying the truth of flight loss of flights.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 lost contact on the way from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing on March 8, 2014. There were 239 passengers and crew members on board, including 154 Chinese passengers.About a year later, the Malaysian Civil Aviation Administration announced that the MH370 had crashed and preserved all the people on board were killed.
Before the lawsuit was filed, more than 110 passengers' families and Malaysia Airlines such as Malaysia Airlines reached a settlement agreement and received compensation of RMB 2.5 million to 3 million.
According to CCTV news, the amount of civil compensation filed by the 40 passengers who filed a lawsuit this time is between 10 million and 80 million yuan (RMB, the same below, the same, 1.88 million yuan to S $ 15.07 million), which is very large.Some are compensation for mental losses, up to 30,000 to 40 million yuan.
However, Agence France -Presse reported that it is unclear what jurisdiction of the Chinese court to implement compensation requirements for the defendant.
MH370 Passengers' family agent Zhang Qihuai said that the plaintiff proposed that the plaintiff proposed that the defendant was the responsibility party, so he was obliged to prove that he was not responsible."Now the proof cannot be or insufficient, and the proof is not all the huge empty holes left in this case."
Nevertheless, passengers who filed a lawsuit generally expressed relief to the trial.The passenger's family Jiang Hui told AFP that the trial was a turning point.