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.
“This gesture has no strings attached and does not affect rights” of passengers, a company spokesman said.
At Toronto’s major airport, a Delta Air Lines aircraft that had taken off from Minneapolis, Minnesota, struck the runway forcefully on Monday and overturned.
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.
As of Wednesday morning, Delta reported that only one of the twenty-one passengers hurt in the accident was still in the hospital.
According to paramedic services, emergency personnel treated a range of passenger complaints, such as headaches, anxiety, head injuries, and back sprains.
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.
Canada’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.
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.
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