LiveNOW’s Austin Westfall is speaking with Hunter Shkolnik, an aviation accident attorney, after tragedy struck New York’s LaGuardia Airport late Sunday night. It all happened when an Air Canada passenger plane collided with a fire truck, leaving two people dead and dozens more injured. Reports indicate that the pilot and first officer of the Air Canada Express CRJ-900, which was landing in New York on its way from Montreal, died as a result of the incident. Federal officials described the pilots as “two young men at the start of their careers.”
According to reporting from Lisa Evers with our partners at FOX 5 New York, a flight attendant who was strapped into her seat was ejected and later said to have survived the crash. One passenger who was onboard the plane at the time of the crash praised the pilot for his final act. “But looking back on it, the pilot did the best thing he could,” the passenger said. “He hit the brakes as hard as he could, and he knew he was going to be at the cost of his own life.”
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