Hundreds are expected at today's military funeral in Hamilton for a local Air Force pilot, killed last week while on a training mission in the Prairies.
Twenty-nine-year-old Captain Thomas McQueen, a member of 401 squadron at 4 Wing Cold Lake, Alberta, died when his C-F 18 crashed on the Saskatchewan side of the Cold Lake Air Weapons range.
The 11 am service for the Fisherville native will take place at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Mount Hope.
Four CF-18 Hornets from Bagotville, Quebec will conduct a flyby during the ceremony, after which a procession will travel along an extended Highway of Heroes to Ottawa for a private interment at the Beechwood National Cemetery.