They Warned the System Was Broken. Two Canadian Pilots Paid the Price.

By Canada Forever

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On March 22, 2026 — Air Canada Express Flight 8646 landed at New York's LaGuardia Airport. Two Canadian pilots never came home. Captain Antoine Forest, 30, from Coteau-du-Lac, Quebec — and First Officer Mackenzie Gunther, a Seneca Polytechnic graduate from Ontario — died when their aircraft struck a Port Authority fire truck on Runway 4. In their final seconds, they applied reverse thrust and braked hard. Seventy-two passengers walked away. The two pilots did not. ✅ The second-by-second CVR timeline — what happened in the final 3 minutes ✅ Why the runway safety system ASDX failed to alert — and why ✅ The fire truck had no transponder — confirmed by NTSB ✅ One controller was managing up to four job functions simultaneously ✅ Pilots filed written safety warnings about LaGuardia months before this crash ✅ The FAA is 3,000 air traffic controllers short of its own safety target ✅ The NTSB investigator was stuck in a TSA line for 3 hours — because of a government shutdown ✅ Why this is Cana

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