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Insurance Company to Pay $46 Million for Ural Airlines Plane Landing in Cornfield
The insurance payment for the emergency landing of the Ural Airlines A321 in a cornfield in the Moscow region will be 46.1 million dollars. This was stated by Ilya Kabachnik, deputy director of the AlfaStrakhovanie company, which insured the plane.
The specified amount includes only the loss of the airliner, but not compensation to passengers, RBC reports. According to the publication's data, the payment for the A321 will be the largest for the Russian aviation insurance market in a year. AlfaStrakhovanie has not yet paid it in full, Vedomosti writes .
Compensation for the SSJ100 that burned at Sheremetyevo Airport amounted to 43.5 million dollars (the plane was insured by AlfaStrakhovanie and Sogaz).
The amount of major insurance losses of airlines for the year, excluding payments to passengers, exceeded 121 million dollars. Premiums collected for aviation hull insurance in 2018 amounted to 150 million, according to Kabachnik's presentation.