Deal to Be Signed With Libya in ’89 Jet Attack
France and Libya will end their dispute over the 1989 bombing of a French UTA airliner with the signing today of a $170-million compensation deal for families of the 170 people killed in the attack over the Niger desert, officials said. A joint declaration on bilateral relations is also expected.
The deal is well short of the $2.7-billion payout Libya approved last year for 270 victims of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, but more than the original $34-million settlement in the UTA case.
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