![]() ![]() Petersburg, were killed along with daughter Hannah, 19, and son Ari, 16, Rabbi Jacob Luski said. Mitchell and Leslie Weiss of Belleair, near St. The crash also killed a family from Florida, the rabbi of their synagogue confirmed.ĭrs. Strong winds initially kept the plane from landing at Punta Islita, and forced to it to land at Tambor, about 85 miles east, until conditions improved, Civil Aviation Director Ennio Cubillo said, La Nacion reported. “It could be because of the wind that was blowing - there were some very strong gusts,” he added. Rojas said that while planes taking off from Punta Islita “always go out to the sea side, that day they came out here.” “With the turn he made, he was left with one wing vertical and one wing hit the trees,” he said. This is beyond anything.”Īnother witness to the crash, Efrain Rojas, told Costa Rica’s La Nacion newspaper the plane was flying “too low” when he saw it pass by his dining room window and make “a turn to the left.” “The Steinbergs were like a second family to us. Will was incredibly brilliant,” Ziman said. “Someone said these kids would change the world and they really would have. The house is empty now.”ĭavid Ziman, 19, with whom William Steinberg was a fellow freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, called the mass death “incredibly devastating.” Olga Villatoro breaks down in front of the family’s home on Jan. Now five souls are in heaven,” Olga Villatoro, of Mamaroneck, said through sobs. Wolfe said she heard a loud boom and then saw a fireball erupt 20 seconds later.Īt the Steinbergs’ home earlier Sunday, their longtime nanny broke down over the tragedy. “The plane was super low and then all of a sudden veered to the left and crashed into the ground of the mountain sideways, wing first,” she said. Witnesses said the Cessna 208B Grand Caravan was flying “super low” when one of its wings clipped some trees shortly after takeoff.Īmerican tourist Dawn Wolfe told NBC News she was eating lunch with her family near the Punta Islita Airport when the doomed flight passed overhead. William, his parents, Bruce and Irene Steinberg, and brothers, Zachary, 20, and Matthew, 13, were among 10 American tourists and two pilots on a single-engine plane that smashed into a mountain near the coastal resort town of Punta Islita around 12:20 p.m. “I keep hoping this is a dream inside a dream.” “For the first time in my life, I feel like an adult - and I don’t think I’ll ever feel like a kid again,” a stunned Gray said. Gray recalled how they watched “Thomas the Tank Engine” and played with Legos before moving on to “The Family Guy” and varsity tennis at Scarsdale High School and basketball at the Westchester Reform Temple. Jonah Gray, 18, was best friends with middle child William Steinberg, also 18, since both were 2. Heartbroken pals of a Scarsdale teen killed with his parents and two brothers in a fiery Costa Rican plane crash made a grim pilgrimage to the tragic family’s home Monday to try to work through their grief. ![]()
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