Pilots were identified a few hours ago.
Captain was 30 year old Antoine Forest from Quebec.
FO was Mackenzie Gunther from Ontario, I heard through the grapevine he was 22 but unconfirmed.
Bit more in the media about Forest because his family made a statement to CBC.
Side rant, I'm reminded of how much I hate media reporting on aviation because they get 30% of the info wrong. And of course in this age of AI driven BS there's even fake obituaries complete with pictures of the first person who comes on on google with that name, even though they live in a different country. Just had to wade through a pool of #### to find real info as I was panic searching to find out if it was the one friend of mine who's an RJ pilot that hadn't texted me back yet today.
Anyway, RIP to those brave aviators. They saved a lot of lives by not overreacting and doing something crazy with that plane. Heroes
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