{"id":629433,"date":"2026-04-26T08:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/629433\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:02:21","slug":"montreal-airport-installs-memorial-to-air-canada-pilots-who-died-in-laguardia-crash-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/629433\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal airport installs memorial to Air Canada pilots who died in LaGuardia crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Montreal’s airport authority has installed a memorial to two Air Canada pilots who died in a runway collision at LaGuardia Airport last month.<\/p>\n

The memorial at the Jacques-de-Lesseps plane-spotting park states that Antoine Forest and Mackenzie Gunther lost their lives while performing their duties and pursuing their passions.<\/p>\n

Gunther, 24, and Forest, 30, died when their Air Canada plane collided with a fire truck crossing the runway, just after landing at the New York City airport on March 22.<\/p>\n

A preliminary National Transportation Safety Board report released this week<\/a>, found a surveillance system did not generate an alert for air traffic controllers because ground vehicles were not equipped with transponders.<\/p>\n

It also found that the truck operator reported hearing the word “stop” on the radio but did not know who the transmission was intended for.<\/p>\n

A\u00e9roports de Montr\u00e9al spokesperson \u00c9milie Chevrette says the park where the memorial now sits was where aviation enthusiasts gathered to lay flowers and other tributes after the crash.<\/p>\n

“ADM therefore decided to create this permanent memorial to honour these two young men who died while performing their duties and pursuing their passion,” she said Saturday in an email. <\/p>\n

WATCH | Who were the Air Canada pilots killed in LaGuardia crash:\"\"<\/p>\n

Pilots killed in Air Canada crash at LaGuardia airport remembered<\/p>\n

Friends, family and colleagues are remembering Antoine Forest and Mackenzie Gunther \u2014 the pilots of the Air Canada Express plane involved in the deadly collision at LaGuardia airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-629433","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\/629433","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=629433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}