The Air Canada flight attendant thrown more than 300 feet across the tarmac when her plane slammed into a Port Authority fire truck at LaGuardia Airport has undergone multiple surgeries to repair her shattered legs and will need to “learn how to walk again,” her daughter says.
Solange Tremblay suffered a fractured spine and needed skin graphs “to repair the missing flesh she lost on her legs while sliding down the tarmac,” her daughter Sarah Lépine said in a GoFundMe that outlines the flight attendant’s injuries.
Tremblay was seated behind Air Canada pilot Antoine Forest and First Officer Mackenzie Gunther as their plane landed at LaGuardia Airport at about 11:30 p.m. March 22 and slammed into a Port Authority emergency vehicle crossing the runway.
Forest and Gunther were both killed in the collision. Tremblay, her daughter said, was ejected from the plane upon impact and was thrown more than 300 feet — nearly the length of a football field — before slamming and skidding onto the tarmac.
Air Canada pilot Antoine Forest, left, and First Officer Mackenzie Gunther.
Tremblay was found still strapped in her jump seat when first responders showed up.
“My mom was conscious for all of this, and has sustained severe injuries,” her daughter wrote. “She continues to fight and recover at a hospital in New York.”
“My mom has suffered so much from this event and regrettably her struggles are far from over,” she added. “She will have to undergo several other surgeries, along with intensive rehabilitation to learn how to walk again. At the moment our greatest fear is the risk of infection which could lead to other horrifying complications.”
More than $200,000 has been raised for Tremblay’s medical care in the four days since the GoFundMe post was made.
Lepine said her mother will remain in New York “for the foreseeable future.”
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An Air Canada Express plane is pictured after it smashed into a PAPD emergency vehicle on a runway at LaGuardia Airport in Queens on Monday, March 23, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)
The Port Authority police sergeant in the fire truck during the collision will also have to go to a rehab facility as he recovers, a source said.
Forest and Gunther’s remains were sent back to Canada last week as the wreckage of the mangled Air Canada jet and fire truck were removed from Runway 4, bringing LaGuardia Airport back to full operation. The pilot and first officer were the only fatalities in the devastating crash.
The impact left what Jennifer Homendy, chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, called “a tremendous amount of debris” on the runway that needs to be combed through by investigators.
The NTSB is investigating all facets of the crash, including the possibility that a tower operator gave the emergency vehicle permission to cross the runway without realizing the Air Canada plane was landing there, Homendy said.