REVIEW OF PILOT DEATH

Ole-Friis ERIKSEN

A 26-year-old Danish co-pilot was killed when his plane was shot at over southern Sudan. Mr. Ole-Friis Eriksen, a co-pilot of an aircraft chartered by International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), died from what his pilot described as severe head injuries from a loud explosion in their aircraft that was on its way to Khartoum from the northwestern Kenya town of Lokichoggio. The light aircraft, on a routine flight to Sudan, belonged to Danish Aviation Assistance Company of Denmark. Sudan Monthly Report A monthly production by the Sudan Catholic Information Office (SCIO)

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IN MEMORIAM

(2005) Guy HENDERSON

(2004) Matt RADFORD

(2002) Captain Peter Alfred STANDING QCVSA

(2002) Rodney SKIDMORE

(2002) Captain Anthony TAYLOR

(2001) Ole-Friis ERIKSEN

(2001) Russell DIXON

(2001) Captain Carl MASON

(2001) Lt Col HYVONEN

(2000) Captain Norman LEES

(1999) Joseph BRINELL

(1998) Graham BUDDEN

(1996) Captain Alan YOUNG

(1994) David ROBERTSON

(1994) Flt. Lt. Rick COOK

(1994) Flt Lt Jon TAPPER