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Golden Wings Crash Kills Pilot and Three Students

What: Golden Wings Piper PA-32-260 Cherokee Six
Where: Haifa Israel
When: April 14, 2011
Who: 4 fatalities
Why: On a training flight, the Piper developed unspecified engine problems, so that the pilot requested an emergency landing on the Air Force Technical School landing strip.

On return to the airport, the pilot attempted an emergency landing but brushed treetops on approach, and crashed. A flight instructor 65-year-old f David Bechor, and three students including Mustafa Amin Darawsheh and Moshe Bensel were killed in the crash.

Witnesses say the plane “dropped like a stone…a loud blast…explosion and black smoke”

When the rescue teams arrived, the plane was engulfed.

Yitzhak Raz is heading the inquiry.

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