Baggage of 46 Air India Express Flight Crash Victims Identified

Mangalore: Items of baggage belonging to 46 passengers of the Air India Express flight IX 812 that crashed at Kenjar near here on May 22 have been identified and will be handed over to the rightful claimants at Mangalore by Air India.
In a press release, Air India officials stated that the time and place of the handing over of these personal effects will be intimated individually to the relatives by the Airline management.
“The rightful claimants shall be deemed to be the individuals who have collected the interim relief given by the Airline,” the release stated and added that in case of multiple claimants, the items of baggage shall be handed over to only one claimant, who needs to produce a No Objection Letter from the other claimants.
The personal effects were handled by Kenyon International, a US-based international disaster management agency, hired by the Air India to handle the personal effects retrieved from the crash site.
The agency representatives have sifted through each and every retrieved item, disinfected, cleansed, arranged and separately sorted the items. Of these, personal effects belonging to 46 passengers have been associated and identified positively.
09/07/10 Daijiworld.com

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