AS today marked the first anniversary of the crash of the Embraer 120 plane belonging to Associated AIrlines, key players in the sector have described as unfortunate the failure of the airline management to pay full compensation to the families of the victims.
The airline which had on board the corpse of the late Governor of Ondo State, Dr Olusegun Agagu, family members and government officials crashed few seconds after take off from the Murtala Muhammed Airport killing some with five others surviving.
Besides the failure of the airline to pay full compensation to the families of the victims, one of the two surviving crew members, Miss Oluwatoyin Samson, on Thursday lamented the unjust treatment she suffered in the hands of the airline one year after the accident.
But the information gathered indicated that the airline is making frantic efforts to ensure 75% payment of compensation to the families of the dead.
The development is coming even as controversies still continue to surround the real identity of the insurer of the ill-fated aircraft.
During the crash which occurred on October 3, 2013, the management of the airline had initially declared that the aircraft was insured by Lloyds of London, but later mentioned Sema Marine Insurance Company, based in the United States as the insurer.
Investigations, however, indicated that there was no local insurance for the airline as spelt out by the aviation regulatory body.
According to Oluwatoyin, the airline had continued to insist that she was not one of its staff despite being a cabin crew with the suspended airline since 2000, alleging that the management had continually challenged her to sue it in the court of law
