Delta Air Lines has offered monetary compensation to passengers who survived a plane that crashed and flipped upside down upon landing on the runway in Toronto on Monday 17 February.
The plane crashed on landing
The Delta Flight 4819 flight that arrived at Toronto Pearson International Airport from Minneapolis crashed while landing, bursting up in flames and flipping upside down on the runway.
Passengers and people witnessing at the airport have since shared clips of the crash-landing on social media.
The crash had no fatalities
Luckily, despite the horrifying crash-landing, there were no fatalities from the incident. All 76 passengers and four crew members survived.
Some survivors shared footage following the crash on social media. One person captured a video of the plane crashing, another filmed the aftermath of the crash.
Delta Air Lines offered compensation
Following the horrific event, Delta Air Lines is now offering $30,000 to each of the passengers who were on board the flight as monetary compensation, as reported by NBC News.
A spokesperson for the airline clarified that the offer “has no strings attached and does not affect rights.”
Passengers can still take legal action
What the clarification essentially means is that passengers can still take legal action over the plane crash should they wish to, and that accepting the cash offer is not going to halt anyone from taking further action.
The number of people injured from the flight has increased to 21 out of the 80 people who were on board the plane, with one still in the hospital as of 20 February, according to Delta.
The injuries weren’t fatal
According to Deborah Flint, CEO and president of Greater Toronto Airports Authority, none of the injuries sustained from the crash-landing were life threatening.
A passenger on the plane shared what it was like
One passenger who survived the crash, Peter Carlson, shared what it was like to be inside the plane when it flipped over.
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“All of a sudden everything just kind of went sideways and then next thing I know is kind of a blink and I’m upside down still strapped in,” Carlson told CBS.
He spoke about passengers helping each other
Carlson shared that people on the plane rushed to give each other a hand.
“It sounded, I mean it was just cement and metal. What I saw was everyone on that plane suddenly became very close in terms of how to help one another, how to console one another,” he added.
“That was powerful, but there was a definite ‘what now, who’s leading, how do we find ourselves away from this?'”
The crash is still under investigation
The Delta Air Lines crash in Toronto is still under investigation as the cause remains unclear. Officials have said that the Transportation Safety Board of Canada is handling the investigation, with help from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board.
