Mangalore Air Crash : NGO's 'Business' Proposal to Victims' Families...

Mangalore: Three members of a NGO namely International Foundation for Aviation and Aerospace Development (India Chapter) (IFFAAD) had come from Delhi by flight and were camping in the city of Mangalore for the last 3 days. They were staying in the luxury hotel - Hotel Gateway. The NGO members were accompanied by Stephan Eriksoon, an advocate representing a Swedish firm, specialized in catering to the families of air crash victims, the world over, who claims that he and his firm helped Indians who had died in the Kenyan Airlines that crashed in Cameroon a year ago get adequate compensation.
Talking about their main objective Dr Sanat Kaul, Chairman of IFFAAD told daijiworld “We are trying to bring all the 158 families under one roof to ensure that the victims get their due. The families of the victims are not getting enough legal advice with regard to the compensation”. One of the members of the NGO Puja Jain pointed out that the families of the victims are not well versed with aviation laws and we want to educate them make them understand the issues involved.
But this NGO has come forward to help the victims not out of their concern for the families of victims. Their help comes at a cost of 30% of the compensation money which the families will have to shell out to this NGO for the ‘service’ it offers. In fact they are camping at the posh hotel and have been meeting several families of victims in what is called as “confidential meeting” and trying to make them understand that they are entitled to get much more than what is being offered by Air India Express.
Naturally some families of victims have fallen prey to their charms and the members of NGO claim they have met 25 to 30 families in the last three days and have vouched to fight united for their dues. The NGO members have left for Delhi today but say they will be back in August to execute their plans of getting more compensation for the families. However there are a few families who doubted their intentions and informed daijiworld about their modus operandi. One of the brothers of the victim’s family even wrote to us smelling something fishy at the shameless way in which they were demanding 30% of the compensation from the families.
17/06/10 Daijiworld.com

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