A passenger jet made a hard landing before it lost a wing, burst into flames and flipped onto its roof at Toronto's airport, the fourth major aviation accident in North America in the past three weeks.

Delta Air Lines Inc. is offering $30,000 to every passenger aboard a regional jet flight that came to rest upside down after crash landing at a Toronto airport earlier this week. The payments are “a good-faith gesture” that have “no strings attached and does not affect rights,” Morgan Durrant, a Delta spokesman, said Wednesday.