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| By: Israel Insider staff and partners |
| Published: February 27, 2007 |
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The pilot of a crop plane was killed Tuesday after his aircraft crashed into a high voltage cable near the northern city of Afula. The pilot, 61-year-old Gideon Shatil, managed to report an emergency landing just before the plane crashed in fields near Kibbutz Geva.
"Sadly, all there was left for us to do was pronounce him dead," Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedic Menashe Faraj told Ynet.
After receiving a report of the crash early Tuesday morning, MDA crew's arrived at the site but had trouble reaching the man due to the muddy terrain.
"When we arrived we were told to keep a distance of a few hundred meters from the plane that contained poisonous pesticides," said Faraj. After finally receiving clearance to approach the crash site the MDA crew and Afula firefighters reached the cockpit and retrieved the dead pilot.
Ynetnews contributed to this article. |
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