MOSCOW, November 29 (RIA Novosti) - Relatives of people who died when a plane crashed on landing in the Siberian city of Irkutsk in July have filed a lawsuit against the airliner's European manufacturer, Airbus, for over 17.5 million rubles ($665,000), a lawyer said Tuesday.
On July 9, an A-310 plane owned by Siberia-based S-7 Airlines crashed killing 124 people on a flight from Moscow to Irkutsk, the home airport for popular tourist destination Lake Baikal. It veered off the runway upon landing and caught fire after hitting a concrete wall and plowing into garages.
Lawyer Igor Trunov said Konstantin and Lyubov Slastin, who lost two family members in the tragedy, filed the lawsuit against Airbus to Moscow's Khoroshevsky Court, demanding compensation for "moral and material damages."
On July 9, an A-310 plane owned by Siberia-based S-7 Airlines crashed killing 124 people on a flight from Moscow to Irkutsk, the home airport for popular tourist destination Lake Baikal. It veered off the runway upon landing and caught fire after hitting a concrete wall and plowing into garages.
Lawyer Igor Trunov said Konstantin and Lyubov Slastin, who lost two family members in the tragedy, filed the lawsuit against Airbus to Moscow's Khoroshevsky Court, demanding compensation for "moral and material damages."
S-7 Airlines will be called to the case as a third party.
The Slastins are demanding 16.2 million rubles ($616,000) in moral damages and 1.268 million rubles ($48,100) for the loss of property, Trunov said.
In addition, they want Airbus to pay them lifetime compensation of 6,900 rubles per month ($262).
The Slastins had previously filed a lawsuit to Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky Court demanding compensation of 20 million rubles ($759,000), but the court sent their case to Siberia's Novosibirsk Region.
The International Aviation Committee, a civil aviation body of former Soviet republics which is investigating the causes of the Siberian crash, said in a statement that the crew was to blame for the tragedy.
"On landing, the crew commander automatically moved the thrust lever of the left engine without noticing that its reverse thruster mode was deactivated," the statement said.
S7 said the official conclusion was convenient for the authorities, but not accurate.
The Slastins are demanding 16.2 million rubles ($616,000) in moral damages and 1.268 million rubles ($48,100) for the loss of property, Trunov said.
In addition, they want Airbus to pay them lifetime compensation of 6,900 rubles per month ($262).
The Slastins had previously filed a lawsuit to Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky Court demanding compensation of 20 million rubles ($759,000), but the court sent their case to Siberia's Novosibirsk Region.
The International Aviation Committee, a civil aviation body of former Soviet republics which is investigating the causes of the Siberian crash, said in a statement that the crew was to blame for the tragedy.
"On landing, the crew commander automatically moved the thrust lever of the left engine without noticing that its reverse thruster mode was deactivated," the statement said.
S7 said the official conclusion was convenient for the authorities, but not accurate.
