Delta Offering $30,000 To Passengers In Canada Plane Crash 

Delta Air Lines is offering passengers  who were on a plane that caught fire and flipped upside down on a Toronto runway $30,000 each with “no strings attached.”

Flight 4819 crashed after touching down at Toronto’s Pearson airport this past Monday. Videos of the crash were recorded and posted online by witnesses and by passengers inside of the plane. 

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According to a statement from Delta, “twenty-one of the plane’s 80 passengers and crew were initially transported to the hospital after the incident. All were released by Thursday,” the Guardian reported. 

The crashed flight was operated by Endeavor Air, a subsidiary of Delta. Both American and Canadian authorities are currently investigating the incident. 

“It’s horrifying when you look at the video,” Delta CEO, Ed Bastian, told CBS. 

“You can imagine when I received the text minutes after it happened, hearing there was a regional jet upside down on an active runway.”

“The reality is safety is embedded into our system. Air travel in the United States is the safest form of travel.”

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“[The $30,000] gesture has no strings attached and does not affect rights,” a spokesperson for Delta said.

Paramedic Pete Carlson who was a passenger said: “For at least a brief period of time I thought ‘I’m not getting off this plane.’”

“The next thing I know, I’m upside down and my seatbelt was still belted.”

This crash comes after a series of serious incidents involving aircrafts around the nation, specifically in Washington DC where a passenger plane collided in midair with an army Black Hawk helicopter. 67 individuals were killed when both aircrafts crashed into the Potomac River. 

That crash was hailed as the worst air disaster in the US since 2001. Air traffic controllers have warned for years that employees in towers were overworked in understaffed environments.