Delta Air Lines is said to be offering $30,000 to each passenger that was on-board one of its flights that flipped over after crash landing at Toronto’s Pearson airport on February 17, 2025.
A spokesperson for Delta told CBS News that the $30,000 gesture has “no strings attached” and does not affect rights.
Delta Connection flight 4819. operated by the airline’s wholly owned subsidiary Endeavor Air, was a CRJ-900 aircraft traveling between Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and Toronto Pearson. Out of 80 people on-board the flight, 21 were transported to nearby hospitals, Delta confirmed on February 20, 2025, that all of those who were injured during the crash have been released.
“Our Endeavor crew performed heroically, but also as expected,” Ed Bastian, Delta CEO, told CBS Mornings. “The reality is that safety is embedded into our system.”
“We’re a very competitive industry across the US airlines, but there’s one thing we do not compete on, and that’s safety. We all work together, and we all learn from each other,” Bastian added.
According to the Delta’s website, if a passenger dies, an initial payment must be more than about $20,000. If a passenger is injured, the payment amount is determined by the airline.
North America has experienced a number of air accidents over the past few weeks. On January 29, a collision involving an American Airlines passenger jet and a US Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C., took the lives of 67 people. A medical jet crash on February 1 in Philadelphia killed seven, and a plane crash in Alaska resulted in ten fatalities on February 6, 2025.
Additionally, investigators from the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) of Canada, have begun analysis of flight data recorders and the cockpit voice recorders from flight 4819.