Toronto
Airline wants to give passengers after the head overnight landing landing money
It was disturbing pictures of a crash landing: an aircraft comes to a standstill on the runway. Now the airline offers passengers money.
After the crash landing of one of its aircraft in Toronto, Canada, the US airline Delta Airlines wants to offer each of the passengers concerned $ 30,000 (around 28,780 euros). This gesture is “not linked to any conditions,” said a spokesman for the company on Wednesday of the AFP news agency. It has “no effect on the rights” of passengers.
The machine with 80 people on board, coming from Minneapolis in the US state of Minnesota, landed on the back of Toronto on Monday. During the hard landing, she crashed into the roller field of the airport with full force. The cause of the accident was initially completely unclear.
21 people injured when landing
According to recent information, 21 people were injured in the accident, according to Delta only one of them was in the hospital on Wednesday.
Several aircraft gaps have occurred in North America recently. At the end of January, a passenger aircraft collided with a military helicopter in Washington, all 67 inmates of both machines died. Two days later, a small plane crashed over Philadelphia; Seven people died in the accident.
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Source: Stern
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