Montreal’s airport authority has put in a memorial to 2 Air Canada pilots who died in a runway collision at LaGuardia Airport final month.
The memorial on the Jacques-de-Lesseps airplane recognizing park states that Antoine Forest and Mackenzie Gunther misplaced their lives whereas performing their duties and pursuing their passions.
Gunther, 24, and Forest, 30, died when their Air Canada airplane collided with a fireplace truck crossing the runway simply after touchdown on the New York Metropolis airport on March 22.
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A preliminary Nationwide Transportation Security Board report launched this week discovered a surveillance system didn’t generate an alert for air visitors controllers as a result of floor autos weren’t outfitted with transponders.
It additionally discovered that the truck operator reported listening to the phrase “cease” on the radio however didn’t know who the transmission was supposed for.
Aéroports de Montréal spokesperson Émilie Chevrette says the park the place the memorial now sits was the place aviation fans gathered to put flowers and different tributes after the crash.
“ADM subsequently determined to create this everlasting memorial to honour these two younger males who died whereas performing their duties and pursuing their ardour,” she stated Saturday in an electronic mail.
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