Delta airline will offer $30,000 to each passenger aboard a jet that crashed as it arrived at Toronto airport this week, the carrier said on Wednesday.
“This gesture has no strings attached and does not affect the rights” of passengers, a business spokesman stated.
On Monday, a Delta Air Lines plane departing from Minneapolis, Minnesota, collided with the runway at Toronto’s main airport, flipping upside down.
A flame and heavy clouds of black smoke engulfed the plane as it skidded to a halt on its roof, killing none of the 80 passengers on board.
Delta said 21 people were hurt in the collision, but only one remained hospitalized as of Wednesday morning.
According to paramedics, emergency responders treated a variety of passenger complaints, including back sprains, head injuries, anxiety, and headaches.
Dramatic footage of the disaster, shared on social media and authenticated by AFP on Tuesday, shows the Bombardier CRJ-900 approaching the runway, slamming into it, then sliding forward in a roll, with its wings torn off before coming to a halt on its back.
The Canadian Transportation Safety Board initiated an inquiry, with assistance from the US Federal Aviation Administration, Delta, and Mitsubishi, who purchased Bombardier’s CRJ family of planes in 2019.
The Toronto tragedy was the most recent in a run of flying incidents in North America, following a midair collision between a US Army helicopter and a passenger flight in Washington that killed 67 people and a medical transport plane crash in Philadelphia that killed seven.
