Sunday, September 13, 2009

Israeli hero's son dies

Aasaf Ramon, son of Israel's only astronaut, Ilan Ramon, who died in a space shuttle explosion 2003. Asaaf died in a plane crash. The jet was on a routine training flight and nobody knows why the F-16 crashed. Sunday's crash took place in a hilly area south of the city of Hebron. An unidentified eyewitness said the plane flew low over the southern west bank before crashing and there was a huge fire.
Assaf Ramon and a portrait of his late astronaut father, in 2004

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