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KMID : 0608619990090030248
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Korean Journal of Aerospace and Environmental Medicine
1999 Volume.9 No. 3 p.248 ~ p.259
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Task Force on Assistance to Families of Aviation Disasters(Ⅱ)
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SECRETARY RODNEY E SLATER
CHAIRMAN JAMES E HALL CO-CHAIRS
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Abstract
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The ADFAA recognize that the notification of families of foreign victims can present difficulties that may not exist in the notification of the families of United States citizens. Specially, the families of foreign-citizen victims may not be in the United States and thus not be aware(due to varying time zones, etc.) of a disaster in the United States as quickly as families of U.S. citizen victims. The families of foreign-citizen victims may also have difficulty in establishing contact with the airline involved. On the other hand, a citizen of other country may be a long-term resident of the United States, and, if involved in an aviation disaster, be in a position which is virtually indistinguishable from that of a U.S.-citizen passenger. It is the role of the State Department to inform the families of U.S. citizens residing abroad that their family member has died, as well as to assist foreign government in the notification of the families of non-U.S. citizens who are killed in the United States. Accordingly, the critical factor is not the nationality of the victim, but whether the victim's family is in the United States. In instance when the victim's family resides in the United States, foreign citizen victims should be treated in the same manner as the United States citizen victim whose family is also in this country. When, however, the foreign victim's family is outside the United States, special measures as recommended here should be employed.
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