Delta Offers $30K Each To Toronto Crash Passengers

The Minnesota Star-Tribune reports:

Delta Air Lines is offering to pay $30,000 to each passenger of Delta Connection Flight 4819, which crashed while landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday afternoon. The Atlanta-based airline confirmed the amount Wednesday afternoon. Spokesperson Morgan Durrant said in an email the Delta Care Team is telling customers the money is a gesture that comes with “no strings attached and does not impact rights.”

If every one of the 76 passengers took the money, that would stack up to about $2.3 million. CEO Ed Bastian earlier Wednesday defended its pilots in an interview on “CBS Mornings,” saying there is “one level of safety at Delta” among its mainline and regional pilots. “All these pilots train for these conditions. They fly under all kinds of conditions at all of the airports in which we operate,” Bastian said.

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