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Air Canada Crew Member Survives Ejection in Crash ‘Miracle’
An Air Canada Express sits on the runway after colliding with a Port Authority fire truck at LaGuardia Airport in New York on March 23.
Photographer: Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesA flight attendant on the Air Canada Express plane that crashed into a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport Sunday was found alive on the tarmac after being ejected meters away — and still attached to her seat.
“It’s nothing short of a miracle,” Sarah Lepine, the daughter of the flight attendant Solange Tremblay, told Montreal-based news outlet TVA Nouvelles. Lepine said that her mother was the lead flight attendant on the aircraft, placing her in close proximity to the pilots’ cabin that was torn apart in the accident. Both aviators died.