SETTLING UP San Francisco may take payout for Asiana crash

Posted on 04/14/2016 | About San Francisco, California

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is considering a $3.45 million payout from Asiana Airlines to settle the city's claim from an airport crash that killed three people and injured nearly 200.

City Attorney Dennis Herrera on Wednesday called the proposed settlement “the final chapter in the sad tragedy” caused when Asiana Flight 214 clipped a seawall on an approach to San Francisco International Airport and burst into flames on the runway in July 2013. 

About $1.2 million of the settlement would go toward the city's legal costs and another $1.6 million to the airport for damages stemming from the crash. The board could appropriate the remainder for other purposes.