translated from Spanish: CDE studies ruling on victims of Casa 212 for possible actions

After learning of the ruling issued on Monday by the Court of Appeals of Valparaíso, the State Defense Council (CDE) assessed the ruling that dismisses all the accusations made to the Chilean Air Force, in relation to its possible responsibility in the planning, preparation and execution of the flight of the Casa 212 aircraft stricken in Juan Fernández in 2011.Al regard , the ruling focuses its analysis on the decision of the pilots to fly over the channel that separates robinson crusoe and santa clara islands at a height that qualifies as low, not because it is unregulated, but because it is lower than that which would have allowed them to react to the adverse conditions they encountered in the channel. With regard to compensation, the Court accepted the CDE’s thesis regarding the intransmissibility of moral damage. Meanwhile, it rejected the special compensation regime for the personnel of the Armed Forces and the thesis of the claims for compensation for the moral damage suffered by those who are not direct relatives of the victim, establishing for the latter, a similar amount of compensation only for direct relatives.” Given the magnitude of the case, the State Defense Council (CDE) is analyzing all the background to evaluate the possibility of appealing to the Supreme Court,” the court said.

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