Passenger on board Air Canada flight breaks silence

In the chaos of that night at LaGuardia, what began as a routine landing became a split‑second test of courage. When the Air Canada jet met the fire truck on the runway, pilots Antoine Forest and Mackenzie Gunther had only moments to react.

By slamming on the brakes and bleeding off speed, they turned a likely mass‑casualty disaster into a survivable crash, absorbing the worst of the impact themselves.