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Yahoo
16-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Delta Airlines adds new direct flight from Huntsville to New York City
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — Travelers can now fly from Huntsville International Airport to LaGuardia on a non-stop Delta Airlines flight. 'This really fills a hole on the map in terms of passenger demand, and we're excited not only from a business perspective for travel, but also from a leisure perspective,' said HSV Business Development Manager Thomas Laming. Previously, travelers had to fly through the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to reach New York. Representatives for Delta Airlines said the route has been increasing in popularity, with a 30% rise in demand for summer seats. 'It's definitely one of the number one flows that we've seen over our existing services, especially over Atlanta,' said Delta Spokesperson Amy Martin. 'It makes sense to be able to connect the two markets nonstop, which is a lot more convenient. It's a 2.5-hour flight with no stops and I think serves a need in the market.' The Bombardier CRJ-900 airplane sits 76 passengers and flies out of HSV at 7 a.m. and returns at 9:30 in the evening. It operates Sunday through Friday, year-round and has first class, comfort class, and main cabin options. 'It's a big win for those passengers needing that service and it's coming at a convenient time as well,' Martin said. 'If you're going in for business, that's a great time channel to be getting into Manhattan for meetings, but it's also a great time if you're going up to see a show or enjoy everything that New York has to offer.' Martin said Delta Airlines will continue to invest in Huntsville International Airport. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
21-02-2025
- General
- Yahoo
How did every passenger walk out of a fiery Delta plane crash in Toronto?
Investigators are attempting to determine how all 76 passengers and four crew members aboard Delta Air Lines Flight 4819 survived after their plane crash-landed at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday. Despite the plane skidding down the runway at over 100 mph, flipping over and losing a wing, all 80 people onboard walked away with minimal injuries. ABC News spoke with aviation experts who pointed to three key elements that begin to explain how the passengers survived the crash: the plane's landing gear, its wing and its fuselage. The regional jet was a Canadian-built Bombardier CRJ-900. Experts described the 16-year-old narrow-body plane as a workhorse plane for flights between midsized cities. Delta Flight 4819, traveling from Minneapolis to Toronto, was operated by Endeavor Air. Chris Finlayson used to fly that route for Endeavor. "When you come into land and then you roll out, it's very easy to end up pulling the nose a little bit too high," Finlayson said, adding that angling the plane too high can cause "motion where you end up driving your main landing gear into the runway." Brian Erickson, one of the 76 passengers, described experiencing a particularly hard landing, something experts say could have caused the collapse of the CRJ-900's right landing gear. "When we hit down, it seemed like we hit pretty hard. And I thought, 'OK, this is a pretty rough landing, but I've had that before.' And then all of a sudden, the plane started listing and turning to the right," he said. John Nance, an ABC News aviation analyst who examined video of the landing, said that the angle of the landing placed stress on the right landing gear, potentially contributing to its collapse. "The impact on the right main gear has driven the gear past its limitations, and in the vernacular, it's driven the gear up through the wing," Nance said. MORE: Delta plane crash latest: 'Extreme conditions' at Toronto airport in days before crash After the right-side landing gear appeared to collapse, the plane's starboard wing began to scrape the runway and was ripped from the fuselage. Images taken after the crash clearly show the right wing cleanly snapped off the fuselage, while the right landing gear is ripped off the plane. Inside the cabin, passengers described feeling the heat emanating from a fire outside the fuselage as they skidded down the runway. "It was just incredibly fast. There was a giant firewall down the side. I could actually feel the heat through the glass," passenger John Nelson said. According to multiple aviation experts, the split-second loss of the wing – which holds half the jet's fuel – might have helped ensure the structural integrity of the cabin and the safety of passengers. "If you are actually experiencing such a hard impact that you know the plane is crashing, which would have been the case here, then you would want it to snap off, because the alternative is that your fuselage would have been structurally the weakest point, in which case it would have crunched and torsioned," explained Ella Atkins, a Virginia Tech aerospace professor. MORE: Dramatic video shows moment Delta plane flipped after landing in Toronto As the plane slowed to a stop, passengers found themselves hanging upside-down in the cabin. They were locked in place thanks to modern seats and belts that can withstand the force of the crash, experts said. "I was hanging by the seat belt, which are very sturdy because I'm not a little fella. And, you know, everybody was helping their neighbor," said Erickson. The final factor that saved the lives of DL4819's passengers was likely its well-trained crew and the fast response from airport firefighters, experts said. "When you have something that is so abnormal and so outside of what your psyche can kind of deal with, you go to your foundational knowledge," explained Finlayson. "And that's what that's what you do as an airline employee, you have a strong foundational knowledge, so that way when emergencies happen, you just go to your instinct, and your instincts are to get people out safely." Many passengers reported the intense smell of jet fuel in the cabin. However, by 2:21 p.m. – less than 10 minutes after the crash landing – every passenger and crew member safely exited the plane, escaping before the fuel reignited. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is beginning to uncover clues about the cause of the crash, though the investigation will likely take months to complete. How did every passenger walk out of a fiery Delta plane crash in Toronto? originally appeared on
Yahoo
20-02-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Delta offers Toronto crash passengers $30,000 ‘no strings attached' as some retain lawyers
Delta Airlines will pay a five-figure sum to the passengers who were left 'hanging upside down like bats' after their plane flipped while landing at the Toronto Pearson International Airport. Passengers will each be offered $30,000 with 'no strings attached,' according to a Delta spokesperson. That means passengers can still sue and Delta could still have to pay the resulting damages, according to aviation law experts. The payments will total around $228 million. Passengers can still sue Delta for the crash even if they accept the payments, Alan Tan, an aviation law professor at the National University of Singapore, told Business Insider. Aviation attorney Erin Applebaum told the same outlet that payments are 'fairly typical' for major accidents like these. Passengers are already gearing up to sue, with Canadian law firm Rochon Genova announcing some on board have retained their attorneys following the crash. The law firm says passengers can sue for pain and suffering, loss of income, cost of healthcare and any mental health treatment if connected to a physical injury. These passengers could be awarded up to $280,000 CAD without ever having to prove the airline was liable, according to the firm. Any damages above that would require passengers to prove liability. This payment also does not mean Delta is admitting liability, according to The New York Times, and a passenger who wins damages in a later claim will have this initial payment deducted from the total. All 80 people on board survived the Monday afternoon crash but twenty-one people were hospitalized, including one child. All but one person had been discharged as of Wednesday morning. Passengers recalled dangling from their seatbelts after the Bombardier CRJ-900 flipped on the runway. 'We hit the ground and we were sideways, and then we were hanging upside down like bats,' passenger Peter Koukov told ABC News. 'It all happened pretty, pretty fast. The plane was upside down, obviously, some people were kind of hanging and needed some help being helped down.' The crash itself was quick, and that there was 'no warning' beforehand, passenger John Nelson told ABC News. 'It was just incredibly fast. There was a giant firewall down the side. I could actually feel the heat through the glass,' Nelson said. 'Then we were going sideways. I'm not even sure how many times we tumbled, but we ended upside down. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is leading the investigation with assistance from the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration. Delta and airport officials praised the 'textbook' response from emergency crews following the wreck. Others have also praised flight attendants for getting every single passenger evacuated quickly. 'These people put their lives on the line — they're the last people off the airplane, and I think sometimes we forget that,' Graham Braithwaite, director of aerospace and aviation at Cranfield University, told The Washington Post. Delta CEO Ed Bastian said the company's 'most pressing priority remains taking care of all customers and Endeavor crew members who were involved.'
Khaleej Times
20-02-2025
- Business
- Khaleej Times
Delta offers $30,000 each to Toronto plane crash passengers
US airline Delta will offer $30,000 to each passenger on a plane that crashed as it landed at Toronto airport this week, the carrier told AFP on Wednesday. "This gesture has no strings attached and does not affect rights" of passengers, a company spokesman said. On Monday, a Delta Air Lines plane that departed from the US city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, hit the runway hard at Toronto's main airport and flipped upside down. A fireball and thick plumes of black smoke engulfed the plane as it skidded to a halt on its roof but none of the 80 people on board were killed. Delta said 21 passengers were injured in the accident but only one was still hospitalised as of Wednesday morning. Paramedic services said emergency responders dealt with various injuries among the passengers, including back sprains, head injuries, anxiety and headaches. Dramatic footage of the crash posted on social media and verified by AFP on Tuesday showed the Bombardier CRJ-900 coming in to land before slamming into the runway, then sliding forward in a roll, with its wings sheared off before it stopped on its back. Canada's Transportation Safety Board launched an investigation, assisted by the US Federal Aviation Administration, Delta and Mitsubishi, which purchased the CRJ line of planes from Bombardier in 2019. The Toronto crash was the latest in a recent string of air incidents in North America, including a midair collision between a US Army helicopter and a passenger jet in Washington that killed 67 people, and a medical transport plane crash in Philadelphia that left seven dead.
Al Arabiya
20-02-2025
- Health
- Al Arabiya
Delta offers $30,000 to each passenger on board plane that crashed in Toronto
US airline Delta will offer $30,000 to each passenger on a plane that crashed as it landed at Toronto airport this week, the carrier told AFP on Wednesday. 'This gesture has no strings attached and does not affect rights' of passengers, a company spokesman said. On Monday, a Delta Air Lines plane that departed from the US city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, hit the runway hard at Toronto's main airport and flipped upside down. A fireball and thick plumes of black smoke engulfed the plane as it skidded to a halt on its roof but none of the 80 people on board were killed. Delta said 21 passengers were injured in the accident but only one was still hospitalized as of Wednesday morning. Paramedic services said emergency responders dealt with various injuries among the passengers, including back sprains, head injuries, anxiety and headaches. Dramatic footage of the crash posted on social media and verified by AFP on Tuesday showed the Bombardier CRJ-900 coming in to land before slamming into the runway, then sliding forward in a roll, with its wings sheared off before it stopped on its back. Canada's Transportation Safety Board launched an investigation, assisted by the US Federal Aviation Administration, Delta and Mitsubishi, which purchased the CRJ line of planes from Bombardier in 2019. The Toronto crash was the latest in a recent string of air incidents in North America, including a midair collision between a US Army helicopter and a passenger jet in Washington that killed 67 people, and a medical transport plane crash in Philadelphia that left seven dead.
