List of Cold War Pilot Defections - Israel

Israel

  • On 13 July 1990, at 4:30 a.m., 33-year-old Captain (res.) Haggai Mori, set out from Sde Dov airfield without permission with a Dornier Do 28 plane and attempted to defect. According to the Arab sources enemy plane was met by Syrian fighter planes and driven off from Syrian airspace. After this, the pilot committed suicide. The wreckage of the missing Israeli air force plane was found on the western slopes of the Golan Heights, near the Syrian border.

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