Jet crash kills Israel hero's son

Post by **Garysb** » 13 Sep 2009, 19:35

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle ... 253465.stm

report on BBC

The 21-year-old pilot, Assaf Ramon, was the son of Israel's only astronaut, Ilan Ramon, who died in the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia in 2003.

Gary

MIKE JG · Post by **MIKE JG** » 13 Sep 2009, 20:34

Ah man, that's terrible.

james84 · Post by **james84** » 14 Sep 2009, 17:29

I kenw Ilan Ramon took part to the first ever war action of an F-16, when they bombed the Iraqi nuclear plant of Osirak (1982), and he was rather young, but I didn't know the Israeli had such young pilots!
RIP