21 March,2016 09:33 AM IST | | Agencies
The kin of the 62 passengers, including an Indian couple, will be given this ‘hardship payment’ by Flydubai
People pay their tribute to victims at the entrance of the Rostov-on-Don airport.
Dubai: Dubai-based budget carrier Flydubai yesterday announced a $20,000 (R13 lakh) financial assistance to the kin of each of the 62 passengers, including an Indian couple, aboard its ill-fated flight bound for Russia that crashed after missing the runway in bad weather.
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People pay their tribute to victims at the entrance of the Rostov-on-Don airport. Pic/AFP
Flydubai, a sister firm of Dubai's flagship carrier Emirates Airlines, said at present, its priority is to identify and contact the families of the victims on board flight FZ981 and provide immediate support to those affected.
"Flydubai will additionally organise a programme of hardship payments to the families amounting to $20,000 per passenger, in accordance with our Conditions of Carriage, with the aim of addressing immediate financial needs," a statement by the airline said.
Police and Emergency Ministry employees investigate the wreckage of the crashed plane at the Rostov-on-Don airport yesterday. Pic/AP
The Boeing 737-800, which took off from Dubai for the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, exploded into a fireball early yesterday after it was believed to have missed the runway amid bad weather during its second attempt to land after circling for several hours.
All 55 passengers and seven crew members on board the airliner were declared instantly dead. The deceased, that included Indians Mohan Shyam and his wife Anju Kathirvel Aiyappa, were mostly Russians.
The passengers included 33 women, 18 men and four children while of the seven crew members, five were men and two were women. Representatives from the state-owned budget airline were arriving in Rostov-on-Don - a city of some 1 million around 1,000 kilometres south of Moscow to aid the criminal probe into whether pilot error, a technical fault or poor weather was to blame for the accident.
