Pilots Honor Fallen Captain Antoine Forest

0:00Hundreds of pilots and uniforms showed up in Kotodu Locke on Friday to pay respects to Antoine Forrest, the 30-year-old air-candidate jazz captain who died in a runway crash at New York's La Guardia Airport last month. His flight for Montreal slammed into a fire truck right after landing due to a mix-up with air traffic control that let the truck roll into the plane's path. Killing Forrest and his co-pilot, Mackenzie Gunther, while sending over 40 people to the hospital, though most got out quick. Pilots call themselves a tight-knit crew that sticks together through thick and thin, and you could feel that vibe as they joined flight attendants. And locals in black outside the funeral home, hugging it out and shedding tears after the visitation. Forrest got behind the stick young flying bush planes at 16 for air sagwene, then leveling up to twin-engine jobs, training in Quebec and even, spotting wildfires from the air, before landing at Jazz Aviation in 2022. A private funeral is coming up later for the guy survived by his parents, Mario and

1:03Monon, partner Kahina, and brother Cedric, reminding us how one bad, call on the tarmac ripples through so many lives in the sky. That's the story for today. Canada News Today, Driven by AI, I'm Corey with The Story.