{"id":561898,"date":"2026-03-26T11:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/561898\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:03:11","slug":"laguardia-crash-survivors-could-sue-air-canada-for-up-to-nearly-300k-advocate-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/561898\/","title":{"rendered":"LaGuardia crash survivors could sue Air Canada for up to nearly $300K, advocate says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL \u2014 Aviation law experts say Air Canada passengers injured in the fatal collision at the LaGuardia Airport on Sunday have various legal options.<\/p>\n<p>Gabor Lukacs, a passenger rights advocate, says Air Canada could be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars per passenger. <\/p>\n<p>He says an international agreement that standardizes compensation holds airlines liable for death or bodily injury. <\/p>\n<p>Lukacs says that under the 1999 Montreal Convention injured passengers could each be compensated up to nearly $300,000.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Canada passengers have two years to file lawsuits under the convention.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Durkin, a U.S. aviation lawyer, says they could also sue the American aviation authority and local port authority. <\/p>\n<p>The collision between the Air Canada jet and a firetruck killed both pilots and sent more than 40 people to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 26, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Eli Ridder, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 Aviation law experts say Air Canada passengers injured in the fatal collision at the LaGuardia Airport&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-561898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}