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Delta Air Lines Flight 4819 Flipped at Toronto Piercen International Airport on landing, leading to 76 passengers hanging upside down from their seatbelt. Now the company is offering them $ 30,000 each.
If all passengers accept the proposal, the airline will pay around $ 2.3 million in total.
A airline spokesperson told CNN, “Representatives of the delta care team are telling the customers that no wire is attached and does not affect their rights.”
The CRJ900 Twin-Jet aircraft was approved to land on 17 February, when ET, at around 2:15, crashed, caught fire and flipped. The video obtained by CNN depicts the Right Wing Sheering in a fire shell after the aircraft rear landing gear baking and barely landing on the runway. The strong winds were reported in Toronto throughout the day.
All 80 people, including four crew members survived. According to the airline, twenty -one passengers were rushed to the hospital, but have since been released.
It is not clear when and how the passengers would be able to get compensation for the flight, which was coming from Miniapolis and was operated by the Delta Assistant Endeavor Air.
Passengers who accept the payment of delta should receive money immediately after agreeing, Thomas A. According to Demetrio, the co-founder partner of Law firm Corboy and Demetrio, who specializes in a personal injury, commercial litigation as well as aviation litigation.
“There is no reason for Daily-Dely,” he said.
An initial payment is the standard for such an event, Erin Applebaum, a partner in a law firm Creynder, who specializes in the aviation accident law, and who is representing many passengers who were in flight.
“This is a good gesture, public relations-wise, also, from Delta, to help those who may require financial assistance,” Demetrio said.
But He said that delta offer would probably not be a barrier for passengers on Flight 4819, who want to file a case after the incident.
Demetrio told CNN, “The compensation requested will be for any medical expenses, which will be due to inability to work for any lost income, as they are not ready to go back to work mentally. ”
Known as an international treaty The Montreal Convention involves cases that occur on the international journey program.
Under the treaty, Passengers who are injured on international flights can be compensated up to $ 200,000 until they can prove that an accident occurred, even in cases when the airline was not negligent.
If passengers have injuries with more related costs than that amount, they are entitled to compensation without dispute. However, if the airline is found carelessly, the cap can do the hat on the damage According to Applebaum, more than $ 200,000.
Under the Montreal Convention, passengers are two years to file a lawsuit.
Applebaum said, “There is a lot of time to wait and see how injuries for these passengers develop and how things happen.”
Applebaum said that she Most cases are expected to solve Out of court in about 12 months to 18 months And before any case.
