F16 Israel pilot, son of spacraft Columbia crewmember, killed in crash

Lt. Assaf Ramon aged 21, the son of the Israel astronaut who died onboard the doomed space shuttle Columbia in 2003, had the same faith as his father after his F-16 fighterjet crashed Sundey close to the city of Hebron, Cisiordania. The debris of the crashed F16 plane were found by the search teams and the jet was participating in a routine flight which was part of a training session course. The cause of the accident is still unknown. All F-16 flights were canceled untill further notice and an investigation team was deployed at crash site.
Col. Ilan Ramon, the first Israel astronaut who reached the Earth outer space, died in a similar tragic accident on February 1, 2003 when the Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart at a height of about 60 km over Texas just 10 minutes before the scheduled landing in Florida.