


Delta Airlines is offering $30,000 to every passenger aboard the Monday flight that crashed upon landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport.
An airline spokesperson told HuffPost “Delta Care Team representatives are telling customers this gesture has no strings attached and does not affect rights.”
The plane was carrying 80 people — 76 passengers and four crew members. No fatalities were recorded as a result of the crash, and all but one of the 21 people who were injured had been released from the hospital as of Wednesday morning, the airline said.
The flight originating from Minneapolis was operated by Endeavor Air using a CRJ-900 aircraft. Videos of the accident show the plane crashing as soon as it lands at the airport, bursting into flames before flipping upside down.
The cause of the crash has yet to be determined.
Earlier this week, the National Transportation Safety Board said a group of U.S. investigators is assisting its Canadian counterparts in their investigation of the accident.
In an interview with “CBS Mornings” on Wednesday, Delta CEO Ed Bastian said the plane’s crew “performed heroically.”
“The fact that they were able to evacuate that plane as expeditiously as they did under extreme conditions coupled with the fact that all 80 people walked off the plane with limited physical injuries was really a testament to the safety that’s embedded in the systems,” Bastian added.
But Bastian said he wasn’t able to offer any further details on the crash amid the investigation.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has sought to reassure people that air travel is safe after a string of recent accidents, including the midair collision between a passenger jet and a military helicopter near Washington, D.C., that left 67 people dead.
“If you get in a plane, if you look at how many people fly, how many flights we have, of course it’s a safe space,” Duffy told CBS News.
Meanwhile, a former employee with the Federal Aviation Administration sounded the alarm after he and hundreds of other probationary employees at the agency were fired by the Trump administration.
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“This is about protecting national security, and I’m scared to death,” he told The Associated Press.
In his CBS interview, Duffy pushed back against the criticism of the FAA cuts, calling them “incredibly small.”