Avner Tzchori
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Tzchori's helmet
(Photo: Southern District Police)
Site of crash
(Photo: Arava Rescue Unit)
An Ultralight Drifter aircraft
(Illustrative photo credit: CC-BY kenhodge13/Flickr)
The body of Avner Tzchori, 38, who went missing Sunday after taking off from Ein Vered on an ultra-light plane was found near the Jordanian border by a police officer and two volunteers on Monday.
The plane's remains were located several hours later inside by Jordanian army forces inside Jordanian territory. The body will be turned over to the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute.
Tzchori had been missing since Sunday morning after he took off from a landing-field in central Israel on his private ultra-light plane. A suicide note was later found in his home. He had started taking ultralight flying lessons six months ago and had not yet received his pilot license.
In 2003, Tzchori suffered a sky diving accident in the United States which left him paralyzed from the waist down and wheelchair-bound. He has since worked as an inspirational speaker and video editor among other things and also worked on developing technical aids for the disabled.
One of Tzchori's friends told Yedioth Ahronoth that the suicide note had come as a complete shock to his friends who described him as an extremely motivated and optimistic person despite his injury.
"He never rested for a moment, despite his injury. Some people only want to be pitied after such an accident but Avner quickly got back on his horse and started giving lectures about his life story," one friend said.
Another added, "He suffered a critical injury and fought for his life and made his rehabilitation a way of life. Despite being wheelchair-bound he never broke down and went about realizing his dream of flying."
http://www.ynetnews.com
Authorities early Monday morning discovered the body of a pilot in training who had disappeared the day before. Avner Zchori, 38, had left a handwritten suicide note before taking off on Sunday, and then stopped responding to control tower calls during a training flight.
After an intensive search, Zchori’s body was found in the desert near Tzukim, a small community in the Negev near the Jordanian border.
His note was found by his girlfriend, who called the police for help, Ynet reported on Sunday. In it, the pilot reportedly requested that his doctor, who is also an adviser in the field of alternative burial, be contacted if something happened to him.
“He was a good and quiet man,” a colleague of the missing man told Ynet, adding the pilot had once been injured in a parachuting accident and as a result was paralyzed in both legs. “Today he went flying after me, and then I understood he had vanished.”
According to reports in the Hebrew media, the young man took off from the Ein Vered landing strip in the center of Israel around 7:30 a.m. Shortly afterward the control tower lost contact with him and his Drifter Ultralight aircraft, which is capable of flying for four hours without refueling.
Searches began in the Mitzpe Ramon area for remains of the plane. An unnamed officer said that police didn’t know “where he was flying to.”
Aaron Kalman contributed to this report.
Police on Sunday were searching for a pilot in training who left a handwritten suicide note before taking off, and then stopped responding to control tower calls during a training flight.
The note was found by his girlfriend who called the police for help, Ynet news reported. In it, the missing pilot reportedly requested that his doctor, who is also an adviser in the field of alternative burial, be contacted if something happened to him.
“He was a good and quiet man,” a colleague of the missing man told Ynet news, adding the pilot had once been injured in a parachuting accident and as a result was paralyzed in both legs. “Today he went flying after me, and then I understood he had vanished.”
According to reports in the Hebrew media, the young man took off from the Ein Vered landing strip in the center of Israel around 7:30 a.m. Shortly afterwards the control tower lost contact with him and his Drifter Ultralight aircraft, which is capable of flying for four hours without refueling.
Searches were being conducted in the Mitzpe Ramon area for remains of the plane. An unnamed officer told the Hebrew news site police didn’t know “where he was flying to.”
Source: http://www.timesofisrael.com
By BEN HARTMAN
05/26/2013 16:22
Police are searching in a race against time to find a man from central Israel who left a suicide note at his home and took off in his ultralight, vanishing into thin air.
The man, who began taking lessons on the ultralight about six months ago but still does not have a pilots license, flew out of an airstrip at Ein Vered in the Sharon around 7:30 a.m. Sunday morning. A relative of the man found the note at his house and notified police, who sent a patrol helicopter to the sky to try to locate the man, to no avail.
After the disappearance, the police operational branch notified the army to be on the look-out for a man in an ultralight is flying to parts unknown in Israel's airspace.
Source: http://www.jpost.com
The Transportation Ministry reported, Sunday, that a Drifter-type ultralight aircraft has been missing since the morning, when it took off in the Sharon region, northeast of Tel Aviv.
The ministry's announcement noted that evidence and testimony received after the takeoff led to a suspicion that the pilot, a partially-disabled student pilot, was trying to commit suicide.
Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com
Published: May 26, 2013 13:16 / Israel News
Police are searching for a pilot of a light aircraft who took to the air Sunday morning off an airfield in central Israel, leaving a suicide note which was found when he was already airborne.
The operational division of the police, aided by a helicopter, launched a search for the pilot. They said he carried an amount of fuel sufficient for one hour of flight.
Raanan Ben-Zur
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