Two Jewish families from Flatbush’s Syrian community survived a horrifying private jet crash in Mexico on Thursday—emerging with nothing more than scratches as flames and smoke consumed their $10 million aircraft.
The Gulfstream V jet had just arrived from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, carrying the families to Cabo San Lucas for Pesach, when it veered violently off the runway during landing Thursday afternoon. Shocking footage now circulating on social media shows the aircraft skidding across the tarmac before careening off the paved surface and coming to a jarring halt near the edge of the airfield, smoke billowing from the wreckage.
“We are alive,” one passenger can be heard saying emotionally in a video filmed just moments after the crash. “Thank you Hakadosh Baruch Hu. Thank you for saving us and my children—it is absolutely a miracle that we are alive.”
The jet, capable of carrying up to 16 passengers and typically used for luxury executive travel, had taken off just two hours earlier. Upon the landing in Cabo, the sleek aircraft was split in parts—its fuselage torn, with one section landing nearly some 150 feet from the cockpit.
Inside, the scene was one of sheer chaos. Bags had been flung from overhead compartments, dishes and cutlery lay shattered across the cabin floor. But against all odds, every passenger—including young children—escaped unharmed.
The cause of the crash has not yet been confirmed by Mexican aviation authorities, though initial reports suggest the aircraft may have experienced a fault upon landing. Emergency services responded to the scene, with paramedics and airport brigades treating several people at the scene, though none were transported to hospitals.
The crash marked the second aviation disaster in under 24 hours. Just one hour earlier, a helicopter carrying a Siemens executive, his wife, and their three children plunged into New York’s Hudson River. All six on board perished in that tragic incident.
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Enough is enough. Stop this flying on unnecessary small planes and helicopters. Maybe it’s a warning for chal hamoed to stop subjecting our families to wild and dangerous experiences. Yes you need to fly on business or travel to get to a wedding or Israel do it with a big plane that’s usually safer with experienced pilots. Every Joe Shmoe gets a pilot license to fly a small aircraft to show off how smart and gutsy he is. If you have mega amount of extra money help poor families. Support Torah classes and kiruv. Getting kids used to wild and dangerous sports is no mitzvah. We Jews have enough to do on a spiritual level with extra money. Corrupting and spoiling our kids is just causing a ruined generation. You have extra money. Get your kids a tutor. Teenage kids get them a mentor. Pay top dollar for a good mentor who can inspire them to love to learn Torah. Girls too can be trained to become successful mothers. Get them cooking lessons and have them volunteer to take care of babies who need extra care in families with crisis. I watch smart parents interact with their kids and give them time especially before they go to sleep. Other parents sitting and yapping on their phones for hours while their kids are ignored. So the kids turn to other bored kids and together they start planning wild activities. They begin looking for thrills of all sorts. Now you want these kids to succeed in marriage where they have each been spoiled rotten. So many get divorced and a ruined society expands. And of course it leads to trauma and OTD big time. If your rich to own a small plane get rid of it. Get an experienced young rabbinical student to tutor and inspire your teens.
Only by Jews traveling for pesach, can you get a 10 million dollar jet to look like the back of my minivan, with food boxes and bags, oh also, #TYH
Chasdei Hashem Ki Lo Somnu Ki Lo Chollu Rachamuv
hodu laShem Key Tov
WOW!! I heard that this family BH are known as Baalei Tzedoka.
Tzedoka Tatzil Mimovves.
From the videos you yourselves posted it is clear that the aircraft was certainly not “consumed by flames and smoke” as you wrote, and with the exception of its wheels its fuselage looks quite intact, hardly what I would call “split in parts—its fuselage torn”
They were even able to go back in afterwards and shoot video (B”H!)
A bit of truth before sensationalism please
Great one really