This is from the RavBerland.com site.

You can read the whole thing HERE.

Here’s the key snippet from the Rav:

Tuesday, the night of 19 Tishrei 5787, the Rav spoke after Maariv about the holiness of the sukkah.

From there he turned to how quickly one can reach the Emirates and Uman today, and to airplanes.

“So it doesn’t fall on the way”

That evening, with a smile, the Rav said: “[You get off the plane, say the Tikkun HaKlali –] five minutes… you come back to the plane and carry on – so it doesn’t fall on the way.”

And, half in jest, he asked: “Did you hold the plane tight when you flew? You forgot to hold it – that’s why it fell.”

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Then he said that one may not fall asleep even for a second, and brought proof from the Talmud: “Bring a Gemara, Tractate Sukkah – see what it says: they only danced and did not sleep – they only dozed while dancing.”

From there he turned to a pilot: “If you’re a pilot… you’re in the clouds, into space – you don’t need to sleep at all,” and to the Simchat Beit HaShoeva, where, as the Jerusalem Talmud in Tractate Sukkah teaches, divine inspiration was drawn: “He received it at the Shoeva – in the Yerushalmi, chapter HeChalil.” Then he spoke about the planes:

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“You travel to the Emirates – you get there within an hour… Now you leave at eight and arrive at eleven.

If you travel to Uman, it’s a two-hour flight, but it could be a quarter-hour flight… The fastest today is five thousand [km/h]. And there’s the MiG… that’s three…

Now we’re bringing out a plane of six thousand. Here there’s a space plane, only it’s so expensive. Like from New York to California, it arrived within a quarter of an hour, and fell into the sea, because landing it costs more than flying it.

So these are things we need to know: what is happening, and what to pray for.”

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See how this relates to the whole, miraculous story of how that plane, and its passengers, were saved by a series of unlikely miracles, one after another, HERE.

Of course, this isn’t the first time that we’ve seen the Rav’s ruach hakodesh – and sweetening of harsh dinim – in action.

And, it probably won’t be the last.

Ashrenu, that we have a rabbi like this, and a Rebbe like this, Rebbe Nachman of Breslov.