Rs 1 crore ex gratia paid to 91 per cent of AI171 victims families

Families of 15 of the 260 persons killed in last year’s Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad have declined to collect the personal belongings of their loved ones, the Tata Group, which owns the airline, said on Friday.

Ex gratia payments of Rs 1 crore have been disbursed to 91 per cent of the families of the deceased, with the remaining cases primarily constituting situations in which documentation is incomplete, or where families have declined to accept the payment, it said in a



statement.

Air India has provided an interim payment of Rs 25 lakh each to the families of the deceased to help address immediate financial needs. Interim compensation has been paid to families of 96 per cent of the deceased. The remaining cases are primarily those where documentation is incomplete or where there are ongoing family disputes, it said.

In terms of the personal belongings of the deceased, the process of returning them was carried out “with utmost respect, dignity and accuracy,” the Tata Group said.