Chile arrives to discuss payments for family of SAN100 crash victims
(panama-guide.com) They are evaluating the possibility of compensation for the SAN 100 helicopter crash. A delegation from Chile arrived in Panama to present proposals on the eventual compensation that will be paid to the family members of the victims of the SAN-100 helicopter crash; which will be discussed in the next meeting that will take place in Santiago de Chile in January.
During the meeting a Bi national work group was installed in order to address themes connected to the crash of SAN 100 that happened on 29 May 2008, in which eleven people were killed, six Chileans and five Panamanians. Also, they "agreed definitely on the methodology of work and the necessary accredited legal and technical concepts," according to the Panamanian Chancellery.
The delegation from Chile formed by Luis Bates, a former Minister of Justice who heads the delegation, Álvaro Arévalo, the Assistant Director of Legal Subjects of the Ministry of Foreign Relations, and lawyers Álvaro Baeza and Ciro Colombara.
Panama is represented by Vladimir Franco, of the Ministry of Foreign Relations who presides over the delegation, lawyer Feliciano Olmedo Sanjur, adviser Marianela Morales, adviser Dino Mon, lawyer Jorge Federico Lee, Mercedes García de Paredes, an adviser to the Civil Aeronautics Authority, and Laura Castro, a lawyer for the Ministry of Foreign Relations.
Yesterday's meeting only touched on subjects related to compensation, but Ana Matilde Gomez, the General Solicitor of the Nation, indicated that law week Chancellor Samuel Lewis Navarro communicated with her to to ask her to meet with the Chilean delegation in order to update them on the progress being made on the investigations being conducted by the offices of the Third Superior Prosecutor.
