A US-based law firm has announced it will offer subsidized legal services to families of Kenyan victims who lost their lives in the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash in March.
36 Kenyans died after the Nairobi-bound flight went down six minutes after leaving Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, killing all the 157 people on board.
Aviation consumer advocates Giraldi and Keese Company argues that a majority of the affected Kenyan families have no capacity to foot the high legal costs involved in the petition.
John Quindos Karanja, a Nakuru man who lost his wife, three children and his nine-year-old granddaughter in the crash, is among Kenyan families that have filed cases against the airline and American aircraft manufacturer Boeing.
The law firm will seek compensation for the affected families.
Esther Ngotho, the representative of Giraldi and Keese Company says: “As a law firm, we are keen on offering subsidized legal services to families of the victims who perished in the Ethiopian airline crash. This will aid in enabling them to find justice.”
“The law firm will be seeking answers to what was reported to have been inherent flaws in the construction of the jet to which aviation analysts ascribe the crash,” she adds.
