Judge Ordered $1.16 million to one AF447 family.

So far this is the largest amount to one family. According to Reuters, a Brazilian judge has ordered Air France to pay $1.16 million in compensation to the family of one victim of last year's Air France flight AF447  crash of one of its airliners that killed 228 people.

 

The Rio civil court judge ordered the French company late on Thursday to pay a total of 2.04 million reais ($1.16 million since $1=1.76 reais) as compensation for the death of Marcelle Valpacos Fonseca Lima, a 41-year-old woman who was Rio de Janeiro state attorney-general. Judge Mauro Nicolau Junior said in his ruling that the crash over the Atlantic Ocean last June, the cause of which is still unclear, was in large part due to the "negligent conduct of the accused."

 

The company said after the crash that it would compensate families of the victims through its insurers, with payments of around 100,000 euros ($137,000) per victim as a compassionate gesture rather than an admission of liability.