Julia Christine Botin

Delta offers $30,000 each to Toronto plane crash passengers

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Agence France-Presse

<p>WASHINGTON - US airline Delta will offer $30,000 to each passenger on a plane that crashed as it landed at Toronto airport this week, the carrier told AFP on Wednesday.</p><script data-wid="auto" type="text/javascript" src="https://content.viralize.tv/display/?zid=AAEyze-tm4MR6kEa&amp;cid=ABUc_49T7TOJoede&amp;activation=adfill&amp;vip_mode=no"></script><script data-wid="auto" type="text/javascript" src="https://content.viralize.tv/display/?zid=AAEyze-tm4MR6kEa&amp;cid=ABUc_49T7TOJoede&amp;activation=adfill&amp;vip_mode=no"></script><div><br/></div><p>&quot;This gesture has no strings attached and does not affect rights&quot; of passengers, a company spokesman said.</p><p>On Monday, a Delta Air Lines plane that departed from the US city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, hit the runway hard at Toronto&#x27;s main airport and flipped upside down.</p><p>A fireball and thick plumes of black smoke engulfed the plane as it skidded to a halt on its roof but none of the 80 people on board were killed.</p><p>Delta said 21 passengers were injured in the accident but only one was still hospitalized as of Wednesday morning.</p><script data-wid="auto" type="text/javascript" src="https://content.viralize.tv/display/?zid=AAEyze-tm4MR6kEa&amp;cid=ABUhmlM8ELh4eS0a&amp;activation=adfill&amp;vip_mode=no"></script><div><br/></div><p>Paramedic services said emergency responders dealt with various injuries among the passengers, including back sprains, head injuries, anxiety and headaches.</p><div>Dramatic footage of the crash posted on social media and verified by AFP on Tuesday showed the Bombardier CRJ-900 coming in to land before slamming into the runway, then sliding forward in a roll, with its wings sheared off before it stopped on its back.<br/><iframe width="1280" height="720" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MpZhAfjkB28" title="Plane crash survivor recalls &#x27;insane&#x27; moment aircraft went belly-up | ABS-CBN News" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br/></div><p>Canada&#x27;s Transportation Safety Board launched an investigation, assisted by the US Federal Aviation Administration, Delta and Mitsubishi, which purchased the CRJ line of planes from Bombardier in 2019.</p><p>The Toronto crash was the latest in a recent string of air incidents in North America, including a midair collision between a US Army helicopter and a passenger jet in Washington that killed 67 people, and a medical transport plane crash in Philadelphia that left seven dead.</p><p>tmc/pno/sw/bjt</p><p>© Agence France-Presse</p>

<p>US airline Delta will offer $30,000 to each passenger on a plane that crashed as it landed at Toronto airport this week, the carrier told AFP on Wednesday.</p>

US airline Delta will offer $30,000 to each passenger on a plane that crashed as it landed at Toronto airport this week, the carrier told AFP on Wednesday.