Families of aircraft victims to receive $3,420 each

MOSCOW. Aug 31 (Interfax-AVN) - Every family with a member killed in last week's air tragedies will be paid a lump sum of 100,000 rubles ($3,420), a source in the Russian government told Interfax on Monday.

The Transport Ministry will move this proposal at the Tuesday government meeting, he said.

A total of 9 million rubles ($307,740) will be paid.

Forty four people were killed when a TU-134 Crusty crashed in the Tula region and 46 in the crash in the Rostov region.