MOSCOW, January 7 (Sputnik) — AirAsia Indonesia CEO Sunu Widyatmoko said the company will pay $100,000 to families of victims of the company's Airbus that crashed on December 28 into the Java Sea, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
According to the news outlet, the amount of compensation to each of the families is in line with what is required by Indonesian law and has been requested by the country's government.
The Wall Street Journal also cited a document, according to which some families had already been offered a payment of some $24,000.
AirAsia flight QZ8501, en route from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore, had 162 people on board. The aircraft lost contact with air traffic control without sending a distress signal.
The cause of the crash remains unknown, but Indonesian search and rescue teams, alongside international partners, have been conducting search operations to recover the plane wreckage and obtain its black box. More than three dozen bodies have been found so far.
