Delta Air Lines offers $30,000 each to passengers on the jets that were fired and repeated on Toronto’s runway. “There is no string.”
Flight 4819 crashed after landing at Toronto’s Pearson Airport on Monday afternoon. The video of the crash was filmed by witnesses and passengers on the plane.
Twenty-one of the plane’s 80 passengers and crew were initially taken to hospital after the incident. According to a Delta statement, it all was released by Thursday. The flight was run by the efforts of a Delta subsidiary. Canadian and US authorities are investigating the incident.
“It’s scary to watch the video,” Delta CEO Ed Bastian told CBS Morning. “You can imagine hearing that when you received the text a few minutes after it happened, there was an area jet upside down on the active runway.
“The reality is that safety is embedded in our system. Air travel in the US is the safest form of travel.”
A Delta spokesman told CBS News that the $30,000 “gestures do not have strings and do not affect their rights.”
Pete Carlson, a Minnesota paramedic, one of the passengers on the plane, told local news station KMSP:
“The next thing I know is I was upside down, my seatbelt was still fastened,” he said.
The crash followed a major storm in Toronto, dumping 20 inches of snow into town, and the airport struggled to catch up with the backlog of cancelled and delayed flights.
The incident comes after a high-profile disaster in Washington, D.C. There, a passenger plane collided into the air with an Army Black Hawk helicopter, killing 67 people and sending both to the Potomac River. The collision was the worst air disaster in the United States since 2001, and has also highlighted many years of warnings from air traffic controllers, highlighting how tower employees are working understaffed and overworked. did.
Despite the disaster, the Trump administration has attempted to fire a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) safety worker and announced SpaceX employees will be on alert to European aviation experts.
SpaceX is owned by Trump’s adviser billionaire Elon Musk and leads the informal “Government Efficiency” (DOGE). The FAA ordered an investigation into the split of the SpaceX rocket just days before Trump took office. The FAA is leaderless after Musk called on his former head to resign.
