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$30,000

Delta Airlines is offering a $30,000 no-strings-attached payment to each of the 76 passengers aboard Delta Flight 4819, which crash landed at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday and immediately burst into flames and rolled upside down. Twenty-one people were injured in the crash, though none of the injuries were life-threatening and all but one injured passenger have been released from the hospital.

So, now the question emerges: is this the right amount of money to offer to a person who survived your plane crash?

Taking the money from Delta Air Lines doesn’t waive any rights, and I’d surmise that folks who were injured in the incident will probably either work something out or initiate legal proceedings to get made whole. But in terms of a quick sorry-about-how-that-went-down payment, $30,000 at least gets you thinking about it, right? If you’re the lucky passenger who walked away unscathed with nothing but a top-notch anecdote about an airport inconvenience, I’d say thirty thousand bucks and a Keep Climbing T-shirt probably does the trick, yeah?

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