Delta offers $30,000 to each passenger after Toronto jet crash
Delta Air Lines Flight 4819 flipped over upon landing at Toronto Pearson International airport, leaving 76 passengers hanging upside down from their seatbelts. Now the company is offering them $30,000 each.
If all passengers accept the offer, the airline will pay out approximately $2.3 million in total.
맥스카지노Delta Care Team representatives are telling customers this gesture has no strings attached and does not affect their rights,맥스카지노 a spokesperson for the airline told CNN.
The CRJ900 twin-jet aircraft was cleared for landing on Feb. 17 when, at around 2:15 p.m. ET, it crashed, caught fire and flipped over. Video obtained by shows the aircraft맥스카지노s rear landing gear buckling and the right wing shearing off in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway. Strong winds had been reported in Toronto throughout the day.
All 80 people on board, including four crew members, survived. Twenty-one passengers were taken to the hospital but have since been released, according to the airline.
It is unclear when and how passengers will be able to receive the compensation for the flight, which was arriving from Minneapolis and operated by Delta subsidiary Endeavor Air.
Passengers who accept Delta맥스카지노s payment should receive the money shortly after agreeing, according to Thomas A. Demetrio, co-founding partner of the law firm Corboy & Demetrio, which specializes in plaintiffs맥스카지노 personal injury, commercial litigation as well as aviation litigation.
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An initial payment is standard for an incident like this one, Erin Applebaum, who is a partner at Kreindler, a law firm that specializes in aviation accident law, and who is representing several of the passengers who were on the flight.
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But Delta맥스카지노s offer will probably not be a deterrent for passengers on Flight 4819 who want to file a lawsuit following the incident, she added.
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An international treaty known as the Montreal Convention covers cases that occur on international itineraries.
Under the treaty, passengers who are injured on international flights can be compensated up to $200,000 as long as they can prove that an accident happened, even in cases when the airline was not negligent.
If passengers have injuries with associated costs that exceed that amount, they are entitled to compensation without dispute. However, if the airline is found to be negligent, the cap on damages can exceed $200,000, according to Applebaum.
Under the Montreal Convention, passengers have two years to file a lawsuit.
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Applebaum said she expects most cases to be resolved outside of court in about 12 months to 18 months and prior to any lawsuit.