2026年3月24日 / 美国东部时间晚上8:52 / CBS/美联社
在周日纽约拉瓜迪亚机场跑道碰撞事故中遇难的两名加拿大飞行员是年轻且雄心勃勃的职业新人，他们都毕生致力于实现飞行梦想。
周二，官方宣布，机长安托万·福雷斯特（Capt. Antoine Forest）和副驾驶麦肯齐·冈瑟（First Officer Mackenzie Gunther）当时正驾驶一架加拿大航空的喷气式飞机降落纽约拉瓜迪亚机场，期间与一辆消防车相撞。
加拿大航空表示，这架从蒙特利尔飞来的加拿大航空快捷航班（Air Canada Express）在周日午夜前几分钟于跑道上与一辆应急车辆相撞，造成39名乘客和机组人员受伤。机上共有72名乘客和4名机组人员。
“这是两名处于职业生涯起步阶段的年轻人，”联邦航空管理局（FAA）局长布赖恩·贝德福德（Brian Bedford）周一告诉记者，“他们的离世对我们来说是一场绝对的悲剧。”
空中交通管制录音显示，碰撞发生前，空中交通管制部门显然在允许消防车穿越跑道后才要求其停止。消息人士向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）透露，碰撞发生时飞机的速度约为每小时100英里。
目前，事故原因调查正在进行中。美国国家运输安全委员会（NTSB）在周二的新闻发布会上表示，碰撞发生前几分钟，跑道警告系统未被激活。
加拿大航空周二称，39名受伤人员中有6人仍在医院接受治疗。
安托万·福雷斯特
其中一名飞行员的曾姑祖母让妮特·加涅尔（Jeannette Gagnier）确认他为安托万·福雷斯特。加涅尔称福雷斯特视她为祖母，她向美联社透露，福雷斯特一直梦想成为一名飞行员。其LinkedIn页面显示，过去五年中他曾在两家航空公司工作。
福雷斯特的Facebook页面显示，他来自魁北克省西南部小城科托杜拉克（Coteau-du-Lac）。科托杜拉克市市长安德烈·布罗瑟（Andrée Brosseau）周二在一份法语译文中向福雷斯特的家人表示慰问。
“安托万是我们中的一员。在我们这样的社区里，每个人都认识某个认识他的人。他的离世对我们整个社区来说是巨大的损失，”布罗瑟写道。
安托万·福雷斯特（左）与另一名飞行员的合影（未注明日期）。安托万·福雷斯特通过Facebook发布
福雷斯特的兄弟塞德里克·福雷斯特（Cédric Forest）在Facebook上分享了一张兄弟俩儿时的照片。
“一路顺风，我的兄弟！哦，我们常说这句话，但这一次将是最后一次，”他写道，“你在风中翱翔，心中总是充满新的计划。你又一次在风中离去，走得太早，没能说再见。我爱你，兄弟，你可以昂首离去。”
一位自称是福雷斯特女友且同为年轻飞行员的女士周二在其Facebook账号上分享了两人的合照，配文“我一生的挚爱”。
麦肯齐·冈瑟
多伦多的圣尼卡理工学院（Seneca Polytechnic）周二发表声明称，冈瑟于2023年毕业于该校航空技术荣誉学士学位项目。
毕业后，他立即加入了由加拿大航空运营的爵士乐航空（Jazz Aviation）培训项目。周二坠毁的航班是一架代表加拿大航空运营的爵士乐航空飞机。
“圣尼卡向冈瑟先生的家人和朋友，以及他的前同事和教授致以最深切的慰问。他将被深深怀念，”该校在声明中写道。
该校周二降半旗向冈瑟致敬。
有人称，幸运的是没有更多人受伤，至少一名乘客克莱门特·勒利夫（Clément Lelièvre）称赞冈瑟和福雷斯特的“惊人反应速度”挽救了他和其他人的生命。他表示，飞行员在飞机着陆时极快地踩了刹车。
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Pilots killed in LaGuardia Airport runway collision identified as 2 “young men at the start of their careers”
March 24, 2026 / 8:52 PM EDT / CBS/AP
The two Canadian pilots who died in Sunday’s runway collision at LaGuardia Airport in New York were young, ambitious men at the start of their careers who each had pursued their yearslong dream of flying.
Capt. Antoine Forest and First Officer Mackenzie Gunther were operating the Air Canada jet that was landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport when it collided with a fire truck, officials announced on Tuesday.
According to Air Canada, 39 of the passengers and crew members were injured when the arriving Air Canada Express plane collided with an emergency vehicle on a runway just before midnight Sunday. There were 72 passengers and a crew of four on board, arriving from Montreal.
“These were two young men at the start of their careers,” FAA Administrator Brian Bedford told reporters Monday. “It’s an absolute tragedy that we’re sitting here with their loss.”
The collision occurred after air traffic control apparently cleared the fire-rescue vehicle to cross the runway before telling it to stop,air traffic control recordingsrevealed. The plane was traveling at about 100 mph when the collision occurred, sources told CBS News.
An investigation is underway into the cause of the collision. In a news conference Tuesday, the National Transportation Safety Board said that a runway warning system did not activate in the moments before the collision.
Air Canada said Tuesday that six of the 39 people who were injured remain hospitalized.
Antoine Forest
Jeannette Gagnier, the great aunt of one of the pilots, identified him as Antoine Forest. Gagnier, who said that Forest looked to her as a grandmother figure, told The Associated Press that he always wanted to be a pilot. His LinkedIn page showed he had worked for two airlines in the past five years.
Forest’s Facebook page said that he was from Coteau-du-Lac, a small city in southwestern Québec. The mayor of Coteau-du-Lac, Andrée Brosseau, offered condolences to Forest’s family in a post on Tuesday translated from French.
“Antoine was one of our own. In a community like ours, everyone knows someone who knew him. His passing represents an immense loss for our entire community,” Brosseau wrote.
An undated photo of Antoine Forest, one of the pilots killed in the runway crash at LaGuardia Airport. Antoine Forest via Facebook
Antoine’s brother, Cédric Forest, shared a picture of his brother and him when they were kids.
“Have a safe flight, my brother! Oh yes, we’ve often heard that phrase, but this time will be the last,” he wrote on Facebook. “You were coming and going in the wind, always full of new projects in mind. Gone again in the wind too soon to say goodbye I love you brother you can leave with your head held high.”
A woman who said she is Forest’s girlfriend and also a young pilot shared a photo of the couple on her Facebook account on Tuesday captioned, “the love of my life.”
Mackenzie Gunther
Toronto college Seneca Polytechnic said in a statement on Tuesday that Gunther graduated from its Honors Bachelor of Aviation Technology program in 2023.
He joined the Jazz Aviation Pathways Program, a training program operated by Air Canada, immediately after graduating. The flight that crashed on Tuesday was a Jazz Aviation plane operating on behalf of Air Canada.
“Seneca sends our deepest condolences to Mr. Gunther’s family and friends, and to his former colleagues and professors. He will be deeply missed,” the school’s post said.
The school lowered its flags to half-staff to honor Gunther on Tuesday.
Some have said it was a miracle that more people weren’t hurt, and at least one passenger, Clément Lelièvre, credited Gunther and Forest’s “incredible reflexes” with saving his life and those of others. The pilots braked extremely hard just as the plane touched down, he said.
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