Yahoo – AFP,
2 June 2015
Kuala
Lumpur (AFP) - The Malaysian government and Malaysia Airlines have reached an
out-of-court settlement with the family of a man who was on Flight MH370, a
lawyer said Tuesday, in the first legal claim linked with the plane's
mysterious disappearance.
Jee Jing
Hang, who operated an Internet business, was one of 239 passengers onboard the
aircraft enroute from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it vanished on March 8 last
year.
On behalf
of his two young sons, Jee's family brought a lawsuit against Malaysia Airlines
last October for breach of contract, as it failed to bring its passengers to
its destination.
The family
also brought claims against the Malaysian government, the Department of Civil
Aviation, the Immigration department and the air force for negligence.
"The
court was informed that all the parties in the suit had come to an amicable
settlement," Gary Edward Chong, a lawyer for Jee's family told AFP.
He added
that terms of the settlement could not be disclosed.
Meanwhile,
a Malaysian lawyer N. Surendran told AFP that the out-of-court settlement could
"trigger other affected family members to pursue similar legal
actions."
An
Australian-led team is scouring the southern Indian Ocean seabed in hope of
finding the final resting place of MH370.
No wreckage
from the flight has ever been found in one of aviation's greatest mysteries.
Four months
after MH370's incident, Flight MH17 was blown out of the sky, killing all 298
aboard, by a suspected ground-to-air missile over Ukraine.
Malaysia
Airlines, the national carrier, has been declared "technically
bankrupt" as the airline announced Monday that it will slash 6,000 jobs as
part of plans to recover from the twin deadly disasters and a long run of red
ink.
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