Nassau, Bahamas – A helicopter crashed early Thursday in an upscale Bahamas resort community, killing one U.S. citizen and injuring four others, police reported.
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Abaco Police Superintendent Noel Curry said all five passengers were Americans, but he could not confirm the identities or genders of the dead person or the four survivors. He also said he could not immediately comment on the extent of the survivors’ injuries.
A Florida television station, CBS Miami, identified one of the survivors as Jeffrey Soffer, principal of Florida-based real estate developer Turnberry Associates, and the owner of Miami’s famous Fontainebleau hotel.
Renardo Curry, Parliament member for North Abaco, said the helicopter was attempting to land at the exclusive Baker’s Bay Golf & Ocean Club on Great Guana Cay when a wind gust sent the aircraft spiraling.
An employee of the resort community told The Associated Press that he helped residents pull people out of the wreckage. He described the crash as a “nightmare.”
“They got into an air pocket and it went into a tailspin. It recovered, and then it went into a tailspin again and from there it hit the ground. The tail came off and the cabin just went into a spin and somebody got thrown out,” said the Baker’s Bay employee, who insisted on not being quoted by name because he wasn’t authorized to speak with journalists.
Baker’s Bay is a playground for millionaires located about 150 miles off Florida’s eastern coast. It includes an oceanfront golf course, a private family beach club and boutique shops.
There were roughly 180 people on the island property for Thanksgiving festivities, the resort employee said.
“Everyone who was there in one way or another helped out,” said Curry, the police superintendent.
Maybe he has a zchus, I hope he uses this as a wake up call that the ritz and glitz jetset lifestyle is not torah’dig and he uses this appertunity to become closer to hashem, now let the music play, shall we?
When a tzorah occurs we ALL must do teshuva. So if another Yid is involved in a helicopter crash or the yidden in Seagate & 5 towns etc are all suffering WE ALL MUST repent.
Hashem is sending us all a message!
What’s wrong with you people? Enough with the stupid comments.
People are constantly looking at everyone else and commenting on their lives.
Let everyone just worry about their own relationship with G-d and how they can be
better people and not look at changing other people. A tragedy happened.
Stop analyzing everything. Enough already!!!!
Judge yourself in reply to comment # 1 , look in the mirror and you will see the way you have been talking you need to work on yourself first , heh and what about chazal say there’s something like a Tinok Shehishbu.
For all I know he could be a Shoimer Toira .Anyway he looks sharp
hope he has a refuah shlama and that his injuries arent very painful.
his father is one of the mir egyptian boys, who was succeful and developedall of aveentura florida. including the safra shul, big baeli tzedk.
where do u guys come from. if its a mitzva, chiyuv to save a jew even if n ot shomer mitzot, how can anyone make assumptions agint ehrlich, yes the 1st quest in olam hb is were u erhlich, so please stop the nonsenical loshon hora, dan lra, boorishness. may all the injured have a refuah shleima, and may u hve sechel & gut shabat