Some of the passengers were injured, but Morgan Durrant said in an email Wednesday that the amount being offered was the same for every customer. Meanwhile, delays at Pearson airport continued as investigators worked to determine the cause of the plane's fiery crash landing and crews began removing parts of the wreckage.
Two of Pearson's five runways, including the "busiest" in Canada, remained closed, said the airport's duty manager Jake Keating. The airport had capped departures throughout the day and a similar step had been taken to manage arrivals.
The airport's website listed dozens of cancelled and delayed flights Wednesday. Sunwing Airlines said in a statement that it had to cancel several southbound flights departing from Pearson in order to "prioritize the safe return of customers" currently delayed in various destinations.
Pearson airport later said on social media that Sunwing had cancelled the remainder of its flights for the day, totalling 13 departures. Once the Delta plane wreckage is removed, Keating said delays would likely persist as the airport inspected the runway to make sure "everything is still in working order. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada said Wednesday that the aircraft wreckage will be moved to a hangar at Pearson airport "to be examined further" and that its investigators will also examine the runway before it's reopened.
Investigators had already recovered the plane's black box on Tuesday, and the agency said they will continue to interview people for the next several days as part of the probe. All 76 passengers and four crew members survived Monday when Delta Flight , operated by its subsidiary Endeavor, crashed at Pearson. Video shows the jet made a hard landing then tipped over, creating a fireball as its wing scraped along the ground before it went belly-up and came to a stop in a cloud of smoke.
