Flight attendant survives being thrown from Air Canada flight in deadly LaGuardia crash: 'Total miracle'

In what is being heralded arsenic a "total miracle," a formation attendant survived being thrown from an Air Canada level aft it collided with a occurrence motortruck astatine New York's LaGuardia Airport precocious Sunday night.

The aircraft, identified arsenic a Jazz Aviation formation operating connected behalf of Air Canada from Montreal, was carrying 72 passengers and 4 unit members erstwhile it collided with a occurrence motortruck connected the runway portion landing, according to officials.

The occurrence motortruck had been crossing the tarmac conscionable earlier midnight aft receiving clearance to respond to different craft reporting an onboard issue, authorities said. Air postulation power audio captured a controller urgently informing the conveyance to halt moments earlier the crash.

The interaction severed the cockpit, sidesplitting the aviator and co-pilot, some based successful Canada, and injuring dozens of others. Roughly 40 passengers and unit members, on with 2 radical successful the occurrence truck, were taken to hospitals, officials said.

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L-R: Officials analyse the site, Monday, March 23, 2026, wherever an Air Canada pitchy came to remainder aft colliding with a Port Authority firetruck astatine LaGuardia Airport, soon aft landing Sunday nighttime successful New York; Flight attendant Solange Tremblay. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig; Facebook/Solange Tremblay)

Flight attendant Solange Tremblay was inactive strapped into her spot erstwhile she was ejected from the craft during the collision, according to her family.

Tremblay’s daughter, Sarah Lepine, told Canadian quality presumption TVA Nouvelles what happened to her parent was a "total miracle."  

She said her parent had aggregate fractures connected 1 limb and volition request surgery, but was different OK.

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"I'm inactive trying to recognize however each this happened," Lepine said, "but she decidedly has a guardian angel watching implicit her."

An Air Canada Express CRJ-900 sits connected the runway aft colliding with a Port Authority occurrence motortruck astatine LaGuardia Airport successful New York, connected March 23, 2026.  (Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images)

Aviation information adept Jeff Guzzetti said Tremblay's endurance was singular fixed the grade of the damage, peculiarly to the beforehand of the aircraft.

A erstwhile national clang investigator, Guzzetti told The Associated Press that Tremblay was apt helped by being successful a spot with a four-point restraint utilized by unit members.

"The formation attendant's spot is benignant of a leap spot that folds down and is bolted to the wall, the aforesaid partition that the cockpit utilizes," said Guzzetti.

Emergency crews enactment astir a crushed conveyance pursuing a collision betwixt the conveyance and an Air Canada Express pitchy astatine LaGuardia Airport successful Queens, New York, connected March 23, 2026. (REUTERS/Bing Guan)

"It's a precise robust seat," helium added. "It's designed to withstand astir apt much clang loads than rider seats due to the fact that you request the formation attendant to assistance passengers get retired of an airplane aft a crash."

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Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are examining coordination betwixt aerial postulation power and crushed vehicles arsenic a cardinal absorption of the probe. Officials said the runway is expected to stay closed for days arsenic crews sift done extended debris and analyse recovered formation recorders.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.