"Five French tourists were taken on a hair-raising, seven-mile "ride from hell" yesterday when an illegal van picked up the unsuspecting passengers at JFK Airport and raced through two boroughs to try to shake cops, authorities said. "We screamed and prayed the whole time we were in the van. God heard us. It was a miracle that we survived," Esther-Ethy Mamane, 26, of Paris, said in French. "I am shocked. The whole thing was quite bizarre. We were very frightened," the still-shaken woman added. "It was like something from a film." Gwen Dulugat, 27, also from Paris, said the van -- unauthorized to pick up passengers at the airport -- took off with a "vroom" when Port Authority cops tried to prevent it from leaving. "It went very, very fast. We're going zoom, zoom, zoom," she said, zigzagging her hand through the air. One officer described the horrifying tour of Queens and Brooklyn as "the ride from hell."" - Cee Bee from Bookmarklet