Delta's 'lesson' just hours after Toronto crash (with no fatalities): to passengers $2.3 million
It will be the Canadian Transportation Safety Board's investigation to determine whether the CRJ-900 that crashed and then overturned [...]
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It will be the Canadian Transportation Safety Board's investigation to determine whether the CRJ-900 that crashed and then overturned while landing at Toronto airport Has fallen victim to a sudden downward current.
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Or whether, and to what extent, pilot inexperience contributed to the near tragedy. It will take months, as is always the case in plane crashes, To determine the causes of what happened on Monday.
However, in the past few hours Delta Airlines offered each of the 76 passengers on flight DL4819 Minneapolis-Toronto a sum of $30,000 (or $2,280,000 in total), specifying that the sum "does not affect the passengers' right to any, future actions."
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Of the 80 people on board, 21 suffered injuries, in two cases serious but not life-threatening. A Canadian law firm, Rochon Genoa, reported to the New York Times that. having been contacted by some of the passengers to take legal action against the American airline.
The New Yorker newspaper also specifies that, according to international treaties, when a plane crash causes injury or death aboard an international flight, U.S. airlines are required to provide sums of money to passengers in cases where the airlines themselves deem the money necessary to cover immediate economic needs (medical expenses, transportation, lodging, etc.).
In the event that a passenger loses his or her life, this 'initial' payment cannot be less than $20,000, according to Delta's website, which cites the Warsaw and Montreal Conventions. In this case, therefore, the Atlanta-based carrier decided to go far beyond what was stipulated in the international agreements, considering that none of the 76 passengers on board the aircraft died.
One year ago, when the rear emergency exit panel detached immediately after takeoff from Portland of a Boeing 737 MAX 9 of Alaska Airlines, the company offered in addition to a full refund of the ticket a sum of $1,500 to each passenger "to cover expenses for immediate needs."
