Teens killed in BMW crash let friend drive after picking him up from JFK airport: ‘He lost two of his brothers’

He was supposed to be a passenger, but when his buddies came to pick him up from JFK on Sunday night, Omar Khan insisted on driving.

He didn’t get far. About a mile from the airport, police said he lost control, crashed into a median and overturned his buddy’s BMW in a brutal crash that killed two of his best friends and left him devastated.

“He is very sad. It’s not his fault,” friend Tanuj Kumar told Daily News on Tuesday. “We had the same emotions. He lost two of his brothers.”

The plane crash killed 16-year-old Ronish Kush, who died at the scene, and 18-year-old Sukhmani Singh, who died shortly after being taken to a Jamaica hospital.

(LR) Omar Khan, Sukhmani Singh, Ronish Kush.

Police said the speeding driver was heading out of the airport on the JFK Expressway when he lost control while approaching the Belt Parkway near 150th Street around 11:45 p.m. Sunday, crashing into the median and overturning the luxury car.

Medics took 19-year-old Khan to a Jamaica hospital in a stable condition. He was not immediately charged.

According to friends, he was returning from Pakistan, where he attended his sister’s wedding.

Ronish’s cousin Robin said he called Ronish after leaving for the airport with Singh in Singh’s car. When he received no response, he said that he and his family were beginning to worry. They checked the location of his phone and saw that he had been in roughly the same place for 30 minutes.

“He always answers on the first call, and when he doesn’t answer, we know something is wrong,” said the cousin, who did not give his last name.

Robin and Ronish’s parents went to the airport where they saw the accident. They approached a police officer who confirmed Ronish’s identity.

Two young BMW passengers were killed near Kennedy Airport early Monday morning.

“They are in shock,” Robin said of his parents. “They don’t believe.”

Ronish’s friends and family described him as a fun-loving, sports car-loving kid who was always ready to help anyone.

“In my first year at school, he helped me,” Anurag, a school friend, recalled.

Ronish celebrated his 16th birthday less than two weeks before the crash. His friends and family rented the hall and celebrated as one big company.

When 20-year-old Harismranprit Kaur learned that her brother Sukhmani had been in a car accident, she was baffled.

“I know how he drives,” she said. “He was a responsible driver. It’s so unusual for him.”

Then she found out that he was not driving.

“Of course I don’t want to blame anyone,” she said. “But I’m upset about him. He is 19. He knows better than to drive like that. It killed two people.”

Kaur said it was just like her brother to pick someone up from the airport.

“He was always there for his friends,” she said. “You can call him at 10 p.m. and he will be there,” she said.

When Singh was one year old, the family moved to Italy from northern India. They then immigrated to the US in 2017. This experience brought the two brothers and sisters closer together.

“He was my best friend,” she said. “We would tell each other secrets.”

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