Forensic experts comb through the dirt for debris at the crash site of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft/FILE -AFP
NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 13 – The remains of 36 Kenyans who perished in the March 10 Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 are due to arrive in Nairobi on Monday.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Friday said the plane that will repatriate the remains will arrive at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport at about 9am.
The International Police on September 12 announced its Incident Response Team had identified all the 157 persons on board the ill-fated plane on route flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi, last month.
INTERPOL said 48 persons were matched through fingerprints.
The agency worked with 100 Disaster Victim Identification experts from 14 countries in an exercise that lasted 50 days, INTERPOL Secretary General Jürgen Stock said.
READ: INTERPOL identifies remains of March 10 Ethiopian Airlines crash victims
United States plane manufacturer Boeing on September announced it had rolled out a Sh5 billion Financial Assistance Fund to compensate families that lost their loved ones in two plane crashes involving its 737 MAX aircraft, the recent being Ethiopian Airlines flight 302.
INTERPOL’s Special Representative Office at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa coordinated the process of identifying remains of the crash victims following a request by Ethiopian authorities, two days after the ET302 crash/INTERPOL
The Chicago-based multinational through administrators – Kenneth R. Feinberg and Camille S. Biros – is set to give each family representing 346 victims $144,500 from the $50 million fund, translating to Sh15 million per family.
READ: Boeing offers families of 737 MAX aircraft crash victims Sh15mn compensation package
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 plummeted into the ground six minutes after takeoff from Ethiopia’s Bole International Airport while on a routine flight to Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
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