$18M proposed settlement reached in 2015 Air Canada crash landing in Halifax
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A proposed settlement of $18 million has been reached in a class action filed on behalf of passengers of Air Canada Flight 624, 10 years after the crash landing.
A Halifax law firm says a proposed settlement of $18 million has been reached in a class action filed on behalf of passengers of Air Canada Flight 624, 10 years after the plane skidded along a Halifax runway and injured 25 people on board.
Wagners Law Firm filed the class action in 2015 on behalf of all 133 passengers.
A 45-day trial on liability had been set to begin next month against Air Canada, NAV Canada, the Halifax International Airport Authority, Airbus and the Attorney General of Canada.
This proposed settlement means the trial will not take place.
If approved by the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, the settlement will provide compensation to passengers and cover legal fees and expenses, and honoraria to the three representative plaintiffs.
“They were very lucky, of course, that it wasn’t more tragic than it was. People were injured, but nobody was killed,” said lawyer Ray Wagner.
“That’s been very traumatic for people to deal with (…) so carrying on for 10 years kind of exacerbates the trauma that they experienced. Now that we have a resolution, hopefully that will help the passengers to be able to put it behind them and move on, those people that have been troubled psychologically from the crash.”
Air Canada Flight 624 arrived at the Halifax Stanfield International Airport at around 12:30 a.m. on a snowy March 29, 2015. There were 133 passengers and five crew members on board.
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