Delta Air Lines denies that it is completely guilty for the injuries suffered in the accident backwards on February 17 at Toronto Pearson International Airport, according to a presentation of the US Court reviewed by CBC News.
The burning landing, on Delta’s 4819 flight, operated by its subsidiary, Endeavour Air, sent 21 of the 80 people aboard the hospital. The incident has led passengers to present at least 16 separated lawsuits in the Federal Court of the United States, seeking unsealed damage.
At least 16 Canadians, who were among the 80 people on the flight, allege in the demands that were injured in the accident, which took off from the Minneapolis Paul International Airport. The civil cases of the Canadians were presented in the United States District Court in Minnesota.
“The plaintiffs claim that these injuries and losses are the fault of Delta and Endeavor, and not the fault of any other part,” wrote the lawyer of the companies Michael G. Mcquillen in a presentation last month. “The defendants deny these accusations.”
Mcquillen said that more demands could be submitted in the case, with “the potential of more than 70 plaintiffs.” The presentation, dated May 22, sought to consolidate all the demands, including those presented by passengers from other states, in a federal court in Minnesota.
Since then, more passengers have presented their own civil complaints in relation to the Toronto accident. This week there were a CBC news review of the judicial records of the United States, including a lawsuit on behalf of a Canadian woman and a minor identified only as “Gog”
Both plaintiffs “suffered and continue to suffer, due to extreme bodily and mental injuries and economic losses as a direct result” of forced landing, their demand establishes. Several of the cases were presented by the law firm of Minneapolis Chestnut Cambronne and use a similar writing.
The demands allege “serious negligence and recklessness” by the members of the crew, who were “inadequate trained and supervised” by Delta and her subsidiary. Endeavor operated the CRJ-900, built by the Canadian firm Bombardier.
You could see dark smoke undulating from the fuselage after the accident in the middle of the afternoon. Publications on social networks showed that the passengers went upside down after the plane overturned and stopped on the snowfall.
Delta later announced that he would offer us $ 30,000 to each passenger on the flight, saying that the proposal comes with “without attachments.”
Delta Air Lines’s flight 4819 arrived fast enough to start an internal alert before the Pearson International Airport in Toronto crashed last month, researchers say in a preliminary report that has not yet determined the cause of the accident.
The Canada Transport Security Board (TSB) found that a warning system on the plane sent an alert “that indicates a high descent rate” less than three seconds before landing, according to a preliminary report published in March.
The TSB also said that less than a second before landing, the angle of the plane’s plane, known as the launch attitude, was of a degree. The launch attitude of the flight operations manual in the TouchDown must be between three and eight degrees, according to the report.
“It is too early to draw conclusions about the causes of this accident,” said the TSB at that time, and will add a complete research report will continue “in due time.”
The accusations in the demands have not been tested in court. Both Delta and Minnesota’s headquarters who filed the demands, Bryan L. Bleichner and Christopher P. Renz, did not immediately respond to CBC comments requests on Tuesday.
The paramedic Mike Nolan suddenly found himself on the first line of an aviation disaster when he went to the Pearson de Toronto International Airport to pick up his friend, just to discover that his Delta Air Lines plane had crashed and turned on the track.
“All the descent seemed to be off,” said one of the plaintiffs, Clayton Bouffard recently told CBC from his home in Greater Sudbury, Ontario. “I remember telling my wife that we seemed to go fast.”
Bouffard said in an interview more than a month after the accident that he continued to have neck pain and that he had not slept well since then.
“I am grateful that all the 80 people survive that,” he said. “It’s surprising that we all survive.”
