Ahmet Burros

 

 

Age: 23

 

Summary: Lebanese international handball player who had been hospitalized in critical condition for less than a week with burns suffered from over 65 percent of his body in the ill-fated El Al Flight 329 airplane accident that killed 77 of the 93 passengers and crew members while attempting to make an emergency landing during takeoff in an apparent tailstrike incident on the runway at Tel Aviv International Airport on July 17, 2006.

 

Cause of Death: Injuries sustained in a plane crash

 

Born: May 13, 1983

 

Died: July 22, 2006

 

Location: Jerusalem, Israel