A passenger on the Delta Air Lines flight that crash landed in Toronto filed a lawsuit in Georgia, stating he suffered significant injuries, as well as being “drenched with jet fuel.”
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Marthinus Lourens’ lawsuit was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court of Northern Georgia, listing Atlanta-based Delta and subsidiary Endeavor Air as defendants. He claimed his head, neck, back, knees and face were hurt because of the crash, leaving him seriously and permanently injured.
“Mr. Lourens was violently tossed about and ended up upside down hanging from his seatbelt inside a burning plane with aviation fuel leaking onto him,” the lawsuit stated.
Lourens, a Texas resident, also suffered emotional distress and mental anguish in addition to physical injuries, he claimed. The lawsuit stated Delta and Endeavor breached their duty of care to their passengers, and employees offered “inadequate assistance.”
He was one of the 76 passengers on board the flight from Minneapolis, and one of the first to file a lawsuit.
The aircraft made a hard landing in Toronto, causing a wing to be torn off before it burst into flames and flipped over, coming to a stop upside down.
All 80 people, including the four crew members, survived the crash, with none suffering life-threatening injuries. The 21 people who were hospitalized have been released.
On Wednesday, Delta offered all the passengers $30,000, stating the money came with “no strings attached.”
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