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The amount of compensation that has been offered to every passenger onboard the Delta Airlines plane that crash-landed upside down has been revealed.
The aircraft crashed upside down onto the runway in Toronto’s Pearson Airport on Monday (February 17).
Passengers were helped from the plane as flames were bursting from it.
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Everyone on board survived, with 18 passengers being taken to hospital for injuries.
Footage taken from the plane has been doing the rounds on social media, with survivors filming themselves in the wreckage.
Now, it has been revealed just how much money Delta Airlines is offering to every passenger who was on the aircraft.
According to a report by NBC News, each passenger is being offered $30,000 in compensation.
A spokesperson for the airline has said that this offer ‘has no strings attached and does not affect rights’.
This basically means that passengers will still be able to pursue further action even if they accept the cash.
A total number of 21 out of 80 passengers were injured in the incident and according to Delta, one person remains in hospital.
Speaking to The Associated Press, John Cox, who is the CEO of aviation safety consulting firm Safety Operating Systems in St Petersburg, Florida, said: “We’ve seen a couple of cases of takeoffs where airplanes have ended up inverted, but it’s pretty rare.”
Deborah Flint, who is the CEO of Greater Toronto Airports Authority, spoke in a press conference where she said the people on board the crashed plane had ‘relatively minor injuries’.
She continued: “No airport CEO wants to have these types of press conferences but this is exactly what our emergency, our operations and our first responders are all practised and trained for.
“And again, this outcome is due in part to their heroic work and I thank them profusely.”
Peter Carlson, a passenger who was on board the plane, described the experience of being on board the plane as it rolled over on the runway.
Carlson spoke to CBS about passengers coming together and helping each other out of the wreckage.
He said: “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.
“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.
“That was powerful, but there was a definite ‘what now, who’s leading, how do we find ourselves away from this?’”
An investigation into the crash and exactly what caused it is currently underway.
