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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Tom Place

Heroic LaGuardia Airport crash pilots 'saved lives' as chilling 'stop, stop, stop' ATC audio emerges

The two pilots killed after a plane collided with a fire engine at New York’s LaGuardia airport have been named, with passengers praising them for saving many lives.

Antoine Forest, 30, and his first officer, Mackenzie Gunther, were piloting an Air Canada flight from Montreal carrying 72 passengers and four crew members when it struck the emergency vehicle on Runway 4 at approximately 11:40pm on Sunday night.

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