{"id":395227,"date":"2026-03-28T13:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T03:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/pilots-air-canada-flight-8646-honored-bodies-return-home\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T13:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T03:38:17","slug":"today-we-mourn-pilots-of-air-canada-flight-8646-honored-as-bodies-return-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=395227","title":{"rendered":"\u201cToday We Mourn\u201d: Pilots Of Air Canada Flight 8646 Honored As Bodies Return Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of past and present <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254978\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-canada\/\"  >Air Canada<\/a><\/span> pilots, crew, and family members lined up the sidewalk outside Air Canada&#8217;s Montreal headquarters this evening to welcome home their fallen colleague, Antoine Forest. Captain Forest was one of the two pilots who tragically lost their lives last Sunday when <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3674853\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Air Canada Flight AC8646<\/span><\/span> crashed into a firetruck on the runway of New York <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256663\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/laguardia-airport\/\"  >LaGuardia Airport<\/a><\/span> (LGA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The return of Captain Antoine Forest and Co-pilot Mackenzie Gunther&#8217;s remains to Montreal and Ottawa were met with tributes at the airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[940,19918,1008,396,476,713,1179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-canada","category-air-canada-flight-ac8646","category-air-crash","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-canada","category-laguardia-airport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395229,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395227\/revisions\/395229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}