Bobby & Sandy Selmonsky Wedding

 

Left to right: Robert Selmonsky, Sandra Markowitz Selmonsky, Miriam Seff Selmonsky & Joe Selmonsky

 

On February 1^st 1957, Northeast Airlines Flight 823 crashed shortly after take-off.

Sadly, 20 people died, and 78 were injured.

Among the survivors were Sandy Selmonsky, pregnant with her daughter Penny at the time, and her 2 ½ year old son Gary.

The flight from NY to Miami had originally been scheduled to take off at 2:45pm, but was delayed, due to snowfall, until 6:01 pm.

During the delay, Bobby had a premonition and tried to get Sandy and Gary removed from the plane, but was rebuffed.

60 seconds after take-off the plane crashed on Rikers Island.  It is believed that spatial disorientation due to the weather conditions was the cause.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Airlines_Flight_823

 

PJ: Sandy told me that whenever Gary would get out of line, she would remind him that he owed her because she saved his life by throwing him out of the window after the crash.