A PILOT who had to be rescued after he crashed his plane in a river in East Yorkshire in 2010 has died in a light aircraft crash in Switzerland.
Sipan Osman, 29, from Leeds, and his 40-year-old passenger died at the scene of the crash in the canton of Neuchatel.
The Foreign Office confirmed Mr Osman’s identity, but not that of his passenger.
The Piper aircraft came down in woodland last Friday morning, some 30 minutes after taking off from Neuchatel on a flight to Amiens, France.
The wreckage was found by emergency services after a helicopter search lasting several hours.
The passenger was from Neuchatel, police in Switzerland said.
They still do not know the cause of the crash.
Back in October last year, Mr Osman was treated by a crew from the Yorkshire Air Ambulance when a light aircraft he was flying ditched and sank in the River Derwent near Aughton.
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