NEW YORK (VINnews/SandyEller/Shimon Gifter) – A Hasidic man from Williamsburg is being hailed as a hero this morning after providing medical care to a woman who passed out on a Florida-bound plane last night.
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The incident took place on JetBlue flight 571 from LaGuardia Airport to Fort Lauderdale, when a woman collapsed in the aisle as the flight crew was in the middle of their beverage service.
A member of Williamsburg Hatzalah rendered medical assistance to the female passenger, allowing the pilot to continue on to Florida instead of having to make an emergency landing.
Thank you to the staff of @jetblue flight 571 and Hasidic superstar EMT for saving a woman's life at 36000 feet. You're all awesome. This is an ongoing situation en route to FLL- Florida. pic.twitter.com/vqtWtJQhd2
— nycphotog (@nycphotog) January 26, 2023
Sources identified the man as Naftuli Schischa.
VIN News spoke to Schischa, who declined to speak about the incident, saying only that Hatzalah members have provided assistance to passengers in flight on many occasions.
(Video credit Shimon Gifter)
Those thoughts were echoed by Chevra Hatzlah CEO Rabbi Yehiel Kalish who said that the incident was par for the course for his members.
“This is what we do,” Kalish told VIN News. “When people call Hatzalah, we ask two questions – what’s wrong and where can we find you. This is what this member was trained to do and what he did on last night’s flight.”
Like many other Wednesday night flights from New York, Flight 571 was delayed because of the heavy rains, and it left LaGuardia 95 minutes after its scheduled 9:45 PM departure time.
Ambulances met the plane at Fort Lauderdale when it landed at 2:36 AM, taking the woman, who was conscious and communicative, to a local hospital.
What a Kiddush Hashem!
His actions were no different than what any Hatzoloh member (and he is currently an active Rockland Hatzoloh EMT) would have done. And we are proud of them all!
Rabbi Yosef C. Golding
CEO Hatzoloh of Rockland
Lucky she wasn’t flying Delta
Obviously it wouldn’t have happened on Delta because they throw the Yiddin off .
You people!
Lucky he wasn’t thrown off theplane from some woke reason.
This should be mandatory watching at Delta airlines. Whatever happened to the black stewardess who has a hissy fit over the hatbox and threw a Jew off of the plane?
Good thing this wasn’t Delta or else the rude stewardess would have removed him before taking off for his extra carry-on in the form of first aid kit.
I am surprised they didn’t kick him off the plane for getting out of his seat.
DO you think that the NY Post or the NY Times will carry this story?
Ha! Ha!
I bet notorious anti Chasid bigot, eliza shapiro will not be writing about that in the nyt
Oy vey can one save lives without an education? no heliga degree in sceince? Just self teaching what we need to know to save lives?
it’s a shame he didn’t get a proper secular education, amirite?
When she gets the bill from the Chasid & solicitations from 50 tzedaka orgs he’s “a member of” She’ll really go into cardiac arrest.