Despite a 1996 federal law prohibiting lawyers from contacting relatives within 30 days of a plane crash, it may be that families of the EgyptAir Flight 990 crash victims are not as well protected from unethical lawyers as they could be.

It’s unclear whether the Aviation Disaster Family Assistance Act applies to the Oct. 31 crash, which occurred in the Atlantic Ocean outside the territorial waters of the United States.

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