Families offered £1m compensation for Concorde victims
Air France has offered around £1m compensation for each of the Concorde disaster victims.
Relatives of the 113 people killed in the July disaster when the plane exploded on take-off have less than a week to decide whether to accept the offer. Of the dead 96 were German.
The settlement offer was made a week ago when Air France approached lawyers for the relatives with a compensation package adding up to £100m.
Such sums would break records in Germany where compensation is generally limited. The lawyers' group representing most of the victims' families had threatened to take the compensation case to the USA where even larger sums might be awarded by a court.
