Air Canada Flight Attendant Who Survived LaGuardia Crash Shared Eerie 'I Will Get Up After I Fall' Post Years Before Disaster

An Air Canada flight attendant who survived the deadly LaGuardia runway collision after being flung from the aircraft while still strapped into her jump seat now finds herself at the centre of a story that blends raw human survival with urgent questions about how the crash happened.

The flight attendant, identified in multiple reports as Solange Tremblay, survived the 22 Mar 2026 collision involving Air Canada Express Flight AC8646, operated by Jazz Aviation, and an airport rescue vehicle at New York's LaGuardia Airport. The National Transportation Safety Board said the CRJ900 struck a fire truck on Runway 4, while Air Canada and Jazz confirmed that the captain and first officer were killed.

In the aftermath, attention has focused on a March 2023 Facebook post attributed to Tremblay that read: 'Mirror, mirror on the wall, I will get up after I fall. Whether I run, walk, or crawl, I will set my goals and achieve them all.' The post has been framed online as eerie because of the extraordinary circumstances of her survival, though there is no evidence that it was intended as anything other than a motivational message at the time.

A Deadly Runway Collision At LaGuardia

The crash occurred late on 22 Mar 2026 as Flight AC8646 arrived from Montréal. The FAA said the aircraft struck an Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting vehicle after landing on Runway 4 at about 23:45 local time, while the NTSB opened an investigation under case number DCA26MA161 and said all aspects of the accident remained under review.

Air Canada said in a statement issued at 06:15 New York time on 23 Mar 2026 that the aircraft was carrying approximately 72 passengers and four crew members, subject to confirmation. The airline also said the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey had confirmed the deaths of the captain and first officer, and that emergency services were caring for injured passengers taken to local hospitals.

Jazz Aviation, which operated the service under the Air Canada Express brand, issued a parallel statement calling it 'an incredibly difficult day' for the airline. Doug Clarke, president of Jazz Aviation LP, said the carrier's focus was on the families of those killed and injured and that the company was fully cooperating with investigators.

The Air Line Pilots Association also confirmed that its accident investigation team was on scene. Captain Jason Ambrosi, ALPA's president, said the deaths of the two crew members were 'a profound tragedy' and said the union was supporting both investigators and affected families.

An Astonishing Survival: How Solange Tremblay Lived

The most striking survival story from the crash involved Tremblay, a long-serving flight attendant with Jazz Aviation. According to reporting based on family comments and investigators' early accounts, she was found more than 300 feet from the aircraft, still restrained in her jump seat after the impact tore the seat from the plane.

Her daughter, Sarah Lépine, described her mother's survival as 'a total miracle' in comments reported by the Associated Press. Tremblay reportedly suffered multiple fractures, including a broken leg that required surgery, but was described as being in stable condition.

That detail has drawn attention from aviation specialists because cabin crew jump seats are designed to stricter crashworthiness standards than ordinary passenger seats and use multi-point restraints. Those safety features may have played a significant role in keeping Tremblay alive, even in a violent ejection sequence, though that assessment sits outside the formal investigation. What is clear is that her survival has been widely described as extraordinary given the force of the impact.

What is established, however, is that Tremblay's survival occurred amid a crash that killed both pilots and injured dozens of others. Reuters reported that 41 people were injured overall, with nine still in hospital as of 23 Mar 2026, while the collision forced major disruption at LaGuardia and sharpened scrutiny of runway safety procedures.

The Social Media Post Now Under Scrutiny

The renewed interest in Tremblay's 2023 Facebook post has become one of the most widely shared angles of the story. The wording, 'I will get up after I fall', has been recirculated as though it foretold the crash, but the known facts support only a narrower conclusion: it was a pre-existing public message that has taken on emotional weight after an exceptional survival.

That distinction matters because the verifiable story is compelling without embellishment. A veteran cabin crew member survived a fatal runway collision in which her seat was apparently ripped from the aircraft, and her old motivational post has understandably resonated with people trying to make sense of the event's human dimension.

The harder and more consequential questions lie elsewhere. Reuters reported that NTSB investigators are examining the role of an air traffic controller who was managing another emergency at the time, while control tower audio captured an urgent attempt to stop the fire truck before the collision. The NTSB has cautioned that it is too early to attribute the crash to a single factor and has said a preliminary report is expected within 30 days, with a final report likely to take 12 to 24 months.

The Investigation Has Only Begun

For now, the official record remains preliminary. The FAA's public statement fixes the basic outline of the accident, Air Canada and Jazz have confirmed the fatal toll among crew, and the NTSB has begun the long process of documenting wreckage, interviewing witnesses and analysing recorded data.

Within that still-developing investigation, Tremblay's survival has become the most arresting personal story to emerge. Yet the larger significance of the crash lies in whether investigators can explain how a passenger aircraft and an emergency vehicle ended up in the same place on the same runway at the same moment, with fatal consequences.

Until those answers arrive, the old Facebook line that now shadows this tragedy reads less like prophecy than a stark summary of survival: after a fall that should have been unsurvivable, Solange Tremblay got up.