Dubai: At least 10 families in the UAE are expected to file for compensation within two weeks over the Dubai-Mangalore plane crash that killed 158 people.
The move comes ahead of the second anniversary of the tragedy.
Family support groups have warned relatives they will lose their legal right for compensation if they do not file a case by the end of next month - within two years of the May 2010 air crash - according to international law.
Many families in the Emirates and India had hoped the matter would be settled in their favour before they had to file compensation suits, but that now appears unlikely.
"We will be filing the papers soon," said Santosh Rai, an Abu Dhabi resident who lost his wife, 10-year-old son and nine-month-old daughter when the Air India Express flight 812 from Dubai overshot the runway in Mangalore and crashed. Only eight people survived.
"No money will compensate what we have suffered and what we imagined for our future with our family. They [Air India] think the more time that passes, people will forget, but it's almost two years and we have not forgotten. We will never forgive Air India."
09/04/12 Preeti Kannan and Ramola Talwar Badam/The National
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