The US airline Delta will provide $30,000 for each passenger on a plane that crashed when it landed at Toronto airport this week, the carrier told AFP Wednesday.
“The gesture does not have strings and does not affect its rights,” a company spokesman said.
On Monday, a Delta Air Lines plane departing from the US city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, rammed the runway at Toronto's main airport and turned it upside down.
A thick plume of fireballs and black smoke enveloped the plane. They stopped on the roof and slid in, but 80 people on board were not killed.
Delta said 21 passengers were injured in the accident, but as of Wednesday morning, only one passenger was still hospitalized.
Emergency personnel said emergency responders handled a variety of injuries among passengers, including back sprain, head injuries, anxiety and headaches.
In dramatic footage of the crash posted on social media and verified by AFP on Tuesday, the Bombardier CRJ-900 landed before sliding forward on a roll after hitting the runway and wings stopped It was shown to be slipping off after cutting.
The Canada Road Safety Board has launched an investigation backed by Delta and Mitsubishi, the US Federal Aviation Administration, which purchased the CRJ plane line from Bombardier in 2019.
The Toronto collision was the latest in a recent series of aviation accidents in North America. This includes an airborne collision between a US military helicopter in Washington and a Washington passenger jet that killed 67 people, as well as a crash of a medical transport in Philadelphia.
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