Families of South Korean Crash Victims Settle With Travel Agency

17 July 2012
The Cambodia Daily
Development policy and administration / Environment and natural resources / Judiciary and courts
13 South Korean nationals / 2007 / Air flight / airline / compensation / died / flight U4 241 / HanaTour / Kampot / Korean family members / Law Firm / mountain / Passengers / plan crash / Seoul law firm / settlement / South Korean nationals / Suh & Co. / Tickets / travel agency

After failing to receive compensation from the airline, relatives of the 13 South Korean nationals who died in the 2007 PMT Air flight U4 241 crash have been reimbursed for their loss by the travel agency that issued the tickets, a law firm said yesterday. According to Seoul law firm Suh & Co., 17 South Korean family members of the passengers who died when the chartered plane crashed into a mountain in Kampot province received between $26,000 and $44,000 each from South Korean travel agency HanaTour in an out-of-court settlement. Suh & Co. declined to say when the families were compensated. “[A]ny additional claims may now be time barred considering the long time-lapse since the incident,” the law firm said in an email. ...