Shmuel Yudkovich, an ultra-Orthodox pilot from Borough Park who made an emergency landing and survived at the last minute, recounts in an interview the moments of horror he went through while making the stressful landing and his plane caught fire. “I’ve been in a few accidents with small planes, but it was the worst of them all. Gd is full of mercy and listens to us.”
The ultra-Orthodox pilot, Shmuel Yudkovich, a Borough Park resident who landed in Brooklyn in an emergency landing following an engine malfunction and survived at the last minute when fleeing the plane, told the U.S. ultra-Orthodox media about moments of fear and anxiety in which the plane went up in flames.
Pilot Shmuel Yudkovich shows his hand that was burned just before the explosion
“Thank God I was burned only in my hands and not in my face, I prayed and remembered that” I have always compared the name to me, “he said. “.
He said he had had a number of accidents with small planes, but he said, “It was the worst of them. Gd is full of mercy and listens to us.” Pilot Shmuel Yudkovich posted his remarks on his Facebook account, where he also posts interesting excerpts from his flights.
As for his family’s fear of his flights he says that his family accepts the fact that he is flying, and he cannot live according to the desires of others.
As reported in Behadrei Haredim, on July 10, the Haredi pilot Shmuel Yudkovitz miraculously survived and came out alive after his plane caught fire while traveling on the runway at the airport in New Jersey after an emergency landing. Emergency officials reported that at 3:25 p.m., Sunday, July 10, an emergency call was received by Linden firefighters about a plane that caught fire at Linden City Airport in New Jersey.
The only passenger on the plane was a 40-year-old ultra-Orthodox pilot from Boro Park, Ben Shmuel Yudkovich, who got off the plane before the emergency crews arrived. He was transferred to the St. Bernabeus Burn Center with burns to his arms and lower limbs.