A flight to Uman was delayed at JFK Airport on Thursday evening after heavy thunderstorms in the New York City area caused extensive flight delays. Hundreds of Frum people heading to Uman are on the Ukrainian Air flight 234, which was delayed for more than four hours.
The pilot allowed the passengers to exit the plane while it sat on the tarmac, with its departure time unknown.
At around 8:40PM – approximately four hours after the scheduled takeoff time – the passengers were getting on the plane to take off.
The flight finally took off at 10:20PM.
The flight is now scheduled to land at Kiev Airport at 2:45PM on Erev Shabbos, leaving the travelers just enough time to make the three hour drive to Uman before Shabbos.
[LATEST UPDATE: The passengers arrived in Uman in time for Shabbos!]
See videos below from on board the flight – via the YWN Instagram Page:
The video collage below is a roundup of the celebrations in Uman on Thursday. (Video credit – Dovid Cohen)
Due to regional weather/thunderstorms around #JFK, the FAA is reporting delays of up to 1 hour & 28 mins on some flights. Please reconfirm your flight before heading to JFK Airport.
— Kennedy Airport (@JFKairport) September 6, 2018
(Charles Gross – YWN)
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How do we get a flight serving chulent with chassidehse hashgacha and chassideshe flight attendants?? Do any of these guys work the redeye from LAX to JFK?
Cult: 1. A system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object.
2. A relatively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange or sinister.
Moshe 1994: not sure of the point you are making. As both Lubavitch and Breslov have from hundreds of thousands of followers and up, those groups would be ruled out as being cults according to your definition [2]. By definition [1] every chassidus is a cult.
Wow Moshe1994 Erev Rosh Hashanah.
1. Anyone travelling overseas before Shabbos should not be travelling so close to Shabbos. They should not be leaving Thurs. because when flights are delayed as happens often enough, it can lead to arriving too late to get to one’s destination before Shabbos or even arriving on Shabbos!
2. All that singing and dancing doesn’t seem proper right before Rosh Hashona. I personally don’t get it.