Delta CRJ removed from Toronto runway, passengers offered $30,000 compensation  

The wreckage of the Endeavor Air/Delta Connection Mitsubishi CRJ900 regional jet which crashed on landing at Toronto-Pearson International Airport (YYZ) on February 17, 2025, has been removed and recovered to a secure location, around 48 hours after the accident unfolded. The airport’s specialized TechOps team assisted in removing the upturned wreckage of the aircraft on February 19, 2025, through collaboration with the Greater Toronto Airports Authority and Air Canada, following Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) authorization.

The Endeavor Air CRJ900, which was completing a transborder flight from Minneapolis-St Paul Airport (MSP) to Toronto for Delta Connection (on behalf of Delta Air Lines) crashed as it landed in snowy and blustery conditions. All 76 passengers and four crew members miraculously escaped with no fatalities among those on board. 21 passengers were treated by medical crews at the scene for injuries sustained during the landing.

The wreckage has now been removed and will be stored in a secure location out of the public eye as investigators from Canada’s Transport Safety Board and the airline continue to examine what might have caused the plane to end up inverted and without one wing and its vertical stabilizer. Widespread speculation has hinted at an excessively hard landing, while others have suggested that a wind-shear event as the aircraft crossed the runway threshold may have been to blame.

For those wondering how the Delta plane crash in Toronto took place, here’s a new video of exactly what happened. pic.twitter.com/eSGvxcMSr6— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) February 18, 2025 In any event, now that the wreckage has been secured, Canadian investigators will have to determine the specific chain of events that resulted in the regional jet’s landing ending in the accident. According to ICAO’s Annex 13, the TSB is obliged to publish a preliminary report on the event within 30 days of it occurring.

In terms of the recovery process, the airport’s Customer Service team is managing a complex baggage recovery operation, implementing professional cleaning services to address potentially hazardous fluids from the accident. The airline has warned those involved that this inspection and decontamination process could delay the return of baggage to its owners by several weeks – a delay which has prompted Delta to extend additional customer support.

Intended as an initial support package to those directly involved, Delta Air Lines has offered $30,000 compensation to each passenger aboard the flight. The “no-strings” compensation package comes without conditions and will preserve passengers’ rights for any future potential legal action that may follow as a result of the accident.

As reported by the Insurance Journal, the payments are “a good-faith gesture” that have “no strings attached and does not affect rights,” Morgan Durrant, a Delta spokesman, said Wednesday, February 19, 2025. The move to offer compensation is not unprecedented, however. Airlines in the past have made similar payments, such as an interim offer of  $5,000 to help passengers replace possessions lost on US Airways flight US1549 which landed in the Hudson River in New York in 2009 after a double engine failure.

Markus Mainka / ShutterstockAs the move to offer the compensation package is unconditional and without prejudice (meaning that liability is neither confirmed nor denied by the airline at this time), there will no doubt be a flurry of legal activity in the coming weeks as those caught up in the accident consult legal advisors on their next course of action.

With the airline’s insurers normally having a panel of legal firms retained in the event of such an accident occurring, the following months will undoubtedly see claims being lodged against the airline and possibly the aircraft manufacturer to much larger compensation claims than the $30,000 being offered in the interim. With physical injuries, mental distress, and the loss of personal items all likely to form elements of any claim, the amount of $30,000 is likely to be just the start of the final compensation amount paid out by the carrier and its insurers.

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