Berlin - Lawyers representing the families of a large group of victims of last year's Paris Concorde crash said yesterday they hoped to reach a deal with Air France next month and avoid a damages claim in US courts.
A German lawyer, Mr Gerhardt Baum, said as long as there was hope for an agreement the group of lawyers, who he said together represented 95 per cent of the 113 victims of the crash in July, saw no necessity for "a risky, expensive, lengthy" suit in the US.