Delta offers $30,000 to each crash survivor

Citizen Watch Report ^ | Alex Mark

[davikkm]

Delta Air Lines has offered $30,000 to each passenger aboard Flight 4819, which crash-landed at Toronto Pearson International Airport on February 17, 2025. This gesture, totaling over $2.2 million, is provided “with no strings attached” and does not affect passengers’ rights to pursue legal action.

The flight, originating from Minneapolis, carried 76 passengers and four crew members. All individuals survived the incident, though 21 sustained injuries. The cause of the crash is under investigation.

[RoosterRedux]

The crashed flight was actually an Endeavor Air operation, a regional airline that operates flights on behalf of Delta.

Endeavor Air has actively promoted the diversity of its flight crews. The airline has shared videos featuring all-female flight crews, sometimes referred to as “unmanned” flights, highlighting their female pilots and crew members.

That is why Delta is sweating bullets. This is potentially big enough to cost Delta and Endeavor dearly.

[Blueflag]

Agree. Spinal compression injuries might take a while to present symptoms.

See a doc NOW.

[Pollard]

READ; provided “with no strings attached” and does not affect passengers’ rights to pursue legal action.

[logi_cal869]

Smells like guilt.

[HombreSecreto]

Can I identify as being a passenger?

[Candor7]

Delta thinks their passengers remain misinformed on their negligence, having two female DEI hires who were the pilots on that flight, both without the experience necessary for flying in winter white out conditions. They misjudged the altitude in the final, failed to flair ( round out)the air craft before landing because they had inadequate depth perception in the white out, and them smashed the aircraft onto the runway collapsing the landing gear.That’s why most Canadian pilots at this level have initial bush pilot experience in flying in cold weather.

You can easily see this on the videos of the landing.

The pilots were inexperienced in cold weather flying and misjudged the round out before landing, flying in white out conditions is tricky, and without the cold weather experience, this happens.

DEI hires are a threat to aviation.Delta do not HAVE TO comply with DEI,they are not a government agency. they could have stuck with FAA regulations requiring the necessary expertise for their pilots.Some wingnut Delta managers or a cadre of the decided to go DEI....and those wingnuts need to be NAMED and FIRED

As to taking the 30 grand deal, I would not take it. Because of their hiring inexperience pilots, each of those passengers could recover millions in damages, many will never fly again, and have nightmares the rest of their lives.

[1Old Pro]

I’d wait until they tell me more about the pilots.

[woodbutcher1963]

It might not be $10MM, but it is a whole lot more than $30K/person. Especially IF they do have injuries.
Plus the lawyer only gets 1/3. The plaintiff gets 2/3 of the eventual settlement.

[Fury]

...having two female DEI hires who were the pilots on that flight, both without the experience necessary for flying in winter white out conditions.

Do you have a link for that?

[mewzilla]

The reports, often quickly deleted, are all over social media.

I’d say that Delta’s precipitous offer suggests that there’s something to the reports.

[mewzilla]

This isn’t about money.

It’s about discovery.

Delta, what have you done...

[dforest]

That may be so but they can do better than 30K.

[Candor7]

Sources say.

Why do you think the Canadian Authorities at Transport Canada are dragging their feet in identifying the pilots?In Canada non-transparency is a fair game to play.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/delta-ceo-says-pilots-on-toronto-plane-that-crashed-were-experienced/ar-AA1zpYFX

[Fury]

Got it - you’re representing a claim as fact.

[bray]

Sounds like they don’t want to have an investigation on the Affirmative Action pilots.

[anton]

They are dreaming. They will end up paying 10X that minimum.

[dfwgator]

Delta will be gone within the next 5 years.

[bray]

You cannot hire white males, that is the only race and sex you can be racist and sexist against.

[Candor7]

Do you have a link for that?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Here ya go !

After the crash of the Delta Connection Flight 4819, operated by Endeavor Air, on February 17 at Toronto Pearson International Airport, claims surfaced that the flight was being piloted by Kendal Swanson, a 26-year-old pilot who recently received her flying license. Although the claims remain unconfirmed, social media was rife with posts, including details from the FAA data.

https://www.msn.com/en-in/public-safety-and-emergencies/traffic-and-transportation-incidents/what-we-know-of-the-pilots-of-delta-plane-that-crash-landed-in-toronto/ar-AA1zoISh

ALSO:

https://airlive.net/news/2025/02/20/source-claims-a-26yo-female-pilot-still-on-training-was-flying-delta-dl4819-which-crashed-in-toronto/

THe BIGGY:

https://xstalk.com/profile/crewe_john36361/status/1892385437265596781

Here she is:

Kendall Swanson DEI hire:

[j.havenfarm]

This is just a gift. There no liability waiver required

Sorry I can’t be more specific but bored, years ago, I actually read the fine print, back when they issued those carbon copy tickets. The airlines liability is limited by some international convention or other. The predictions here of sky high recoveries won’t bear out, though it’s also true, as you say, that many would lack damages sufficient to support the number blythly being tossed around here