Bodies of Pilots Who Died in Collision at NY Airport Are Repatriated to Canada

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.