What witnesses described as heroic last-second manoeuvres defined the final moments inside the cockpit of Air Canada Flight AC8646. As the regional jet barrelled down a LaGuardia runway toward an obstructed path, First Officer Antoine Forest and his colleague reportedly executed a series of emergency actions that spared the lives of everyone in the cabin but their own.
Forest was among the pilots killed in the accident. While the aviation community mourns the loss of two dedicated aviators, the story of Forest's final moments in the cockpit is providing a small measure of comfort to those he left behind.
