https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/20/delta-payments-toronto-plane-crash [p] Skip to main contentSkip to navigation Close dialogue1/1Next imagePrevious imageToggle caption Skip to navigation Print subscriptions Newsletters Sign in US[ ] * US edition * UK edition * Australia edition * Europe edition * International edition The Guardian - Back to homeThe Guardian [ ] * News * Opinion * Sport * Culture * Lifestyle Show moreHide expanded menu * [ ]News + View all News + US news + US politics + World news + Climate crisis + Middle East + Ukraine + Soccer + Business + Environment + Tech + Science + Newsletters + Wellness * [ ]Opinion + View all Opinion + The Guardian view + Columnists + Letters + Opinion videos + Cartoons * [ ]Sport + View all Sport + Soccer + NFL + Tennis + MLB + MLS + NBA + WNBA + NHL + F1 + Golf * [ ]Culture + View all Culture + Film + Books + Music + Art & design + TV & radio + Stage + Classical + Games * [ ]Lifestyle + View all Lifestyle + Wellness + Fashion + Food + Recipes + Love & sex + Home & garden + Health & fitness + Family + Travel + Money * Search input [ ] google-search Search + Support us + Print subscriptions + Newsletters + Download the app * + Search jobs + Digital Archive + Guardian Licensing + About Us + The Guardian app + Video + Podcasts + Pictures + Inside the Guardian + Guardian Weekly + Crosswords + Wordiply + Corrections * Search input [ ] google-search Search + Search jobs + Digital Archive + Guardian Licensing + About Us * Business * Economics * Banking * Money * Markets * Project Syndicate * B2B * Retail a plane upside down [ ] A Delta Air Lines plane lies upside down at Toronto Pearson airport on Tuesday. Photograph: Canadian Press/Rex/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen A Delta Air Lines plane lies upside down at Toronto Pearson airport on Tuesday. Photograph: Canadian Press/Rex/Shutterstock Airline industry Delta offers $30,000 to passengers in Canada plane flip - 'no strings attached' Plane caught fire and flipped at Toronto's Pearson airport, hospitalizing 21 of 80 people onboard Jessica Glenza Thu 20 Feb 2025 10.34 ESTLast modified on Thu 20 Feb 2025 11.47 EST Share Delta Air Lines is offering passengers of a jet that caught fire and flipped over on a Toronto runway $30,000 each - "no strings attached". Flight 4819 crashed after touching down at Toronto's Pearson airport on Monday afternoon. Videos of the crash were captured by witnesses and then passengers inside the plane. Twenty-one of the plane's 80 passengers and crew were initially transported to the hospital after the incident. All were released by Thursday, according to a statement from Delta. The flight was operated by the Delta subsidiary Endeavor Air. Canadian and American authorities are investigating the incident. "It's horrifying when you look at the video," the Delta CEO, Ed Bastian, told CBS Mornings. "You can imagine when I received the text minutes after it happened, hearing there was a regional jet upside down on an active runway. "The reality is safety is embedded into our system. Air travel in the United States is the safest form of travel." A spokesperson for Delta told CBS News that the $30,000 "gesture has no strings attached and does not affect rights". One of the passengers onboard the plane, paramedic Pete Carlson of Minnesota, told local news station KMSP: "For at least a brief period of time I thought, 'I'm not getting off this plane.' US aviation sector requests emergency funds after recent alarming crashes Read more "The next thing I know, I'm upside down and my seatbelt was still belted," he said. The crash followed a large storm in Toronto that dumped 20in of snow on the city, with the airport struggling to catch up with a backlog of canceled and delayed flights. The incident comes after a high-profile disaster in Washington DC, where a passenger plane collided in midair with a army Black Hawk helicopter, killing 67 people and sending both into the Potomac River. The crash was the worst air disaster in the US since 2001, and also highlighted years of warnings from air traffic controllers, who highlighted how employees in towers were understaffed and overworked. In spite of the disaster, the Trump administration has sought to fire Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) safety workers and announced employees of SpaceX would consult at the agency, alarming European aviation experts. SpaceX is owned by billionaire Elon Musk, an adviser to Trump, leading the unofficial "department of government efficiency" (Doge). The FAA ordered an investigation into the breakup of a SpaceX rocket just a few days before Trump took office. The FAA is leaderless, after Musk called on the former head to resign. 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