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Yahoo
06-08-2025
- Yahoo
Flight attendant on plane that flipped over in Toronto sues Delta for $75M, claims pilots and crew were unqualified
Flight attendant Vanessa Miles filed a lawsuit alleging that Delta cut corners in several areas leading to a February plane crash in Toronto. A flight attendant for Delta subsidiary Endeavor, who was a passenger on the fateful February flight from Minneapolis to Toronto that capsized on the tarmac, is suing her employee for $75 million, alleging that the airline was reckless and negligent and essentially put everybody on the flight at risk from the beginning, according to People. According to the lawsuit filed by Vanessa Miles in the Eastern District of Michigan, 'This accident was caused, at least in part, by Defendants knowing assigning an inexperienced and inadequately trained pilot to operate the flight. Defendants cut corners on safety by rushing pilots through training programs and knowingly putting passengers at risk with inexperienced flight crew.' Miles claims that she suffered several injuries, both severe and permanent physical and mental injuries, 'including a fractured shoulder, traumatic brain injury, back injuries, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, among other things.' She is suing Delta for $75 million dollars. According to her lawyer, Madeline Sinkovich, an attorney with Mike Morse Law Firm, 'Ms. Miles suffered significant injuries when Delta Air Lines/Endeavor Air Flight 4819 crash-landed in Toronto after preventable safety, training, and evacuation failures, as alleged in our complaint. We are pursuing full accountability and compensation in court.' Miles alleges that she was left unconscious as a result of the plane crash, and when she came to, she was inverted, hanging upside down soaked in jet fuel and surrounded by smoke before falling to the floor after she unbuckled her seat belt. The February 17 plane crash occurred on an Endeavor flight from Minneapolis to Toronto. In a March report issued by Canada's Transportation Safety Board, the plane descended too quickly; when the plane hit the tarmac, the landing gear collapsed, leading to the plane flipping over. All 80 people on board were evacuated and survived the crash; all injured parties were transported to local hospitals. The Daily Mail reports that the captain, thus far unidentified, is an 18-year veteran of Endeavor Air, having flown for a total of over 3,570 hours across his career; he is also a training instructor. The co-pilot was a one-year employee of Endeavor who had flown 1,422 hours over her career. Delta released a statement at the time of the crash saying, 'For everyone at Endeavor Air and Delta, nothing is more important than the safety of our customers and our people. That's why we remain fully engaged as participants in the investigation led by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada. Out of respect for the integrity of this work that will continue through their final report, Endeavor Air and Delta will refrain from comment.' A Delta spokesperson declined to comment on Miles' lawsuit, citing their policy not to comment on pending legislation but, according to the New York Post, supports Canada's continued investigation efforts. More must-reads: 5 soldiers shot at Army's Fort Stewart in Georgia, base reports Diddy seeks presidential pardon from Trump ahead of sentencing in federal case Titan submersible disaster CEO could have been charged criminally if he survived, Coast Guard says Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
18-02-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Delta plane flips upside down in Toronto crash, at least 18 injured
A Delta Air Lines jet with 80 people onboard crash-landed Monday at Toronto's main airport, officials said, flipping upside down and leaving at least 18 people injured but causing no deaths. Endeavor Air Flight 4819 with 76 passengers and four crew was landing in the afternoon in Canada's largest metropolis, having flown from Minneapolis in the US state of Minnesota, the airline said. No explanation of the cause of the accident, or how the plane ended up flipped with its wings clipped, has been provided. "It's very early on. It's really important that we do not speculate. What we can say is the runway was dry and there was no crosswind conditions," said Todd Aitken, the airport's fire chief. He confirmed that 18 people had been injured in the accident, with no fatalities. Earlier, paramedic services told AFP three people were critically injured -- a child, a man in his 60s and a woman in her 40s. All of the wounded, including those with minor injuries, were taken to area hospitals either by ambulance or helicopter, said the paramedic services' Lawrence Saindon. Dramatic images on local broadcasts and shared on social media showed people stumbling away from the upside down CRJ-900 plane, shielding their faces from strong gusts of wind and blowing snow. Fire crews appeared to douse the aircraft with water as smoke wafted from the fuselage and as passengers were still exiting the plane. Toronto airport authority chief executive Deborah Flint told a news conference the incident did not involve any other planes. Emergency crews were "heroic" in their response, she said, "reaching the site within minutes and quickly evacuating the passengers." Some of them "have already been reunited with their friends and their families," she added. The airport suspended all flights after the incident, before resuming them at around 5:00 pm local time, more than two hours later. It said passengers should expect long delays. - 'It's upside down' - Facebook user John Nelson, who said he was a passenger on the flight, posted a video from the tarmac showing the overturned aircraft and narrated: "Our plane crashed. It's upside down." "Most people appear to be okay. We're all getting off," he added. Delta said the flight operated by its subsidiary Endeavor had been "involved in an incident." "Initial reports were that there are no fatalities," the airline said through a spokesperson's statement. "The hearts of the entire global Delta family are with those affected by today's incident at Toronto-Pearson International Airport," Delta chief executive Ed Bastian said. A massive snow storm hit eastern Canada on Sunday. Strong winds and bone-chilling temperatures could still be felt in Toronto on Monday when airlines added flights to make up for weekend cancellations due to the storm. "The snow has stopped coming down, but frigid temperatures and high winds are moving in," the airport warned earlier, adding that it was "expecting a busy day in our terminals with over 130,000 travellers on board around 1,000 flights." Federal Transport Minister Anita Anand confirmed there were 80 people on the flight. "I'm closely following the serious incident at the Pearson Airport involving Delta Airlines flight 4819 from Minneapolis," she posted on X. Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he was "relieved there are no casualties after the incident." Canada's Transportation Safety Board deployed a team of investigators to the site of the crash. They will be assisted by the US Federal Aviation Administration, which also sent a team to the scene, according to US Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy. The crash comes after other recent air incidents in North America including a mid-air 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. amc-tib-amp/aha/jgc
