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.
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”.
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.’.
Plane caught fire and flipped at Toronto’s Pearson airport, hospitalizing 21 of 80 people onboard.
The crash comes after a high-profile disaster in Washington DC, where a passenger plane collided mid-air with a Black Hawk helicopter, killing 67 people and sending both into the Potomac River.
