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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Safiyah Riddle

Pilots killed in jet collision with fire truck on LaGuardia runway identified

LaGuardia Crash - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

The pilots killed in Sunday's collision between a plane and a fire truck on a runway in New York were two young, ambitious Canadian men that had long dreamed of becoming pilots.

Mackenzie Gunther and Antoine Forrest were operating the Air Canada jet that was landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport on Sunday when it collided with a fire truck. Officials still haven’t identified the two men publicly, but a family member who spoke to The Associated Press and a Canadian college that one of the men attended separately confirmed their identities.

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