The two pilots on the Canada Air Express plane were killed in the collision, and more than 40 others were taken to the hospital. Passengers have praised the pilots, Antoine Forest and Mackenzie Gunther, for saving their lives.
“I think everybody on that plane feels very grateful that they’re all alive, and they all pretty much give it to the pilots,” said Jack Cabot, who was returning home from a spring break ski trip.
Cabot, 22, told NBC News he could feel the pilots trying to slow the plane before the crash. He suffered a bruised cheek and a sore neck when his head struck the seat in front of him.
Christopher Pal, a professor in Montreal who was coming to New York for meetings, recalled the brakes being “a little louder than normal.”
“It happened very suddenly, and then the plane went a little bit left and right, I think,
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