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Israeli Air Force officer, soldier, die in plane crash while training in the Negev

author Wednesday October 22, 2008 21:20author by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies Report this post to the editors

Israeli sources reported on Wednesday that an Israeli Air Force officer and a soldier died when a light plane they were flying crashed in the southern Negev area.

Photo - Haaretz
Photo - Haaretz

Israeli online daily Haaretz reported that the plane, known as Fuga Magister, crashed into a training ground nearly thirty minutes after it took off.

One of the killed officers was identified as Elan Karmi, 19.

Udi Nahushtan, Israeli Air Force Commander, ordered establishing a committee to probe into the incident in order to determine the circumstances that led to the crash.

Haaretz also reported that a similar crash took place in early September when two Israeli Air Force members were killed after their Cobra helicopter crashed during training in the Jerzeel Valley.

Two years ago, two Apache helicopters were damaged after colliding into each other, and a third helicopter crashed due to a technical malfunction. Haaretz said that one pilot was killed in the collision and two pilots were killed in the second crash.

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