Delta offers $30,000 to passengers in Canada plane flip – ‘no strings attached’
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.’“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.
Sherratt rings the changes as Wales start life after Gatland against Ireland
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England to show ‘nastiness’ as Itoje backs side to wrestle back Calcutta Cup
England have vowed to show their nasty side against Scotland on Saturday with the captain, Maro Itoje, calling on his team to buck the trend of recent history by clinching the Calcutta Cup for the first time in five years.Buoyed by their one-point victory over France last time out, England have been champing at the bit all week with Tom Curry saying there was an edginess to training on Monday and Ben Earl revealing the squad were subjecting to a series of video clips showcasing their failings in recent defeats by Scotland.England last beat Scotland in 2020 and have not defeated Saturday’s opponents at Twickenham since 2017 but victory can keep Steve Borthwick’s side in the hunt for the Six Nations title.Itoje is one of only five of England’s starting team to taste victory over Scotland and will be aware that defeat on Saturday will ensure a worst ever run against the auld enemy.“You don’t want blind rage and you don’t want blind, beating-your-chest fury, but you need some of that,” said Itoje
Scotland happy to let England play favourites before Calcutta Cup clash
Among the many questions hanging over the 132nd Calcutta Cup, the hardest to answer might just be exactly how many times you need to beat the English before they stop thinking of themselves as favourites for the next game. Since Gregor Townsend took over as head coach, Scotland have been unbeaten in six out of seven matches, including, count them, the last one, two, three, four in a row. And yet England have contrived a way to arrive at this fixture, which could yet be a record-breaking fifth defeat, as odds-on favourites with every bookmaker, and on a wash of pundits’ promises about how their forwards are going to “monster the auld enemy”.Well, Townsend knows exactly what those laurels are worth, and is happy enough to let England have them.“They’re favourites, there’s no denying that,” he said on Thursday
Dubois’ absence hurts ‘fight card of the century’ but Bakole brings danger
Saudi Arabia’s attempts to seize control of boxing have been relentless but not even its massive wealth and swaggering certainty can overrule the harsh vagaries of life. Boxing is an extreme and unhinged version of real life and it is always subject to bedlam and disruption. And so, on Thursday afternoon, there was a familiarly knotty twist in the sleek Saudi plan to stage “the greatest fight card in the history of boxing” in Riyadh on Saturday night.Daniel Dubois, fresh from his destruction of Anthony Joshua, was meant to defend his IBF world heavyweight title against Joseph Parker as the main undercard bout in a seven-fight extravaganza. It carried the promise of an intriguing and dangerous contest for both men – only for Dubois to fall ill with a virus
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In contrast to the drawn-out 50-over World Cup and its T20 equivalent, the Champions Trophy is quite a cutthroat affair, with one slip-up in the group stage manageable but two likely terminal. Jos Buttler called it a brutal format before England’s opener against Australia in Lahore on Saturday, while his opposite number, Steve Smith, spoke of needing a “quarter-final” mentality.As unforgiving as it is, there is a fair bit riding on this Champions Trophy for Buttler, a captain who lifted the T20 World Cup in 2022 straight after replacing Eoin Morgan but has struggled to live up to it since. Series results have nose-dived, both world titles were surrendered meekly, and the messaging has often been confusing. Matthew Mott paid the price as head coach last year but not every shortcoming was his
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