Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Israel mourns death of hero's son


Israel is mourning the death in a plane crash of the pilot son of the country's first astronaut, Ilan Ramon, himself killed in the Columbia shuttle tragedy.

Assaf Ramon, 21, died on Sunday when the Israeli F-16 fighter jet he was flying crashed in the West Bank.

His father Ilan - an Israeli national hero - died with six other astronauts in the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia in 2003.

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