Victims' Families Reject Boeing's Plans to Move Trial to RI

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Jumat, 3 Mei 2019 17:29 WIB

Workers load up recovered belongings believed to be from Lion Air flight JT610 onto a truck at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta. It is the first time the voice recorder contents from the Lion Air flight have been made public. The three sources discussed them on condition of anonymity. TEMPO/Muhammad Hidayat

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A number of families of victims of Lion Air JT610 crash are opposed to Boeing Co’s plans to relocate the trial of the plane crash from the United States to Indonesia. An attorney from Hermann Law Group, Columbanus Priandanto, on behalf of 21 victims’ families said they refuted the plans because of two reasons.

“First, the US has more objective and independent court system,” said Columbanus in a phone call with Tempo on Thursday, May 2.

The other objection was due to international aviation law. According to him, plaintiffs could sue the planemaker company with the Montreal Convention through the convention for the unification of certain rules relative to international carriage by air.

Read: KNKT: Lion Air JT 610 Final Investigation Report Issued Mid-2019

Through the Montreal convention, the company could be ordered to pay compensation funds of up to US$135,000 for each victim. According to Columbanus, victims’ families have a right to obtain compensation funds for their losses.

The material demand is ten times the compensation funds given by the airline. “So not only assistance funds of Rp1.25 billion but the families also demand compensation funds,” he added.

In forum non-conveniens on April 30 at the federal court in Chicago, US, Boeing planned to move the trial to Indonesia where the plane crash occurred.

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