Pilots carry the casket during the repatriation of Jazz Aviation First Officer Mackenzie Gunther, who died after his Air Canada Express plane collided with a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, in Ottawa, on March 26, 2026. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
The bodies of the two Air Canada pilots who died in a collision on a runway at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday have returned to Canada.
Pilots carried the casket of Jazz Aviation first officer Mackenzie Gunther off a plane at the Ottawa International Airport on Thursday afternoon. Capt. Antoine Forest’s body was then flown from Ottawa to Montréal Trudeau International Airport.
