Air transport company pays initial compensation of $30,000 to August 2015 crash victims' families
Bristow has confirmed the payment of 30% of the $100,000 compensation.
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Tolu Olubajo, African region, senior legal director, while speaking to the press on the February 9, 2016 Sikorsky S-76 crash, said all aircraft owned by the airline will go through the same check process as the Sikorsky S76.
“We do exactly the same checks on all our aircraft, not only on the Sikorsky. As we do this, we await the final report from the Accident Investigation Bureau,” Olubajo said.
The victims of the August 2015 crash includes Chukwuma Erise, Chidi Ukwunta, Ita Ekpeyong, Chis Abua, the captain, Joseph Wyatt and co-pilot, Peter Kayode Bello.
The Sikorsky S-76C+ crashed at the Oworonshoki water beside 3 main land bridge while returning from an offshore drilling rig belonging to SEDCO in Ondo State to the Lagos airport.
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