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Jewish U.S. Navy Pilot's Last Act: Saving 3 Crew Mates
(Columbus Dispatch) Jim Woods - The turbo-prop aircraft loaded with radar equipment had blown an engine over the northern Arabian Sea after returning from a mission in Afghanistan. The U.S. Navy pilot, Lt. Miroslav "Steven" Zilberman, 31, ordered his three crew mates, including the co-pilot, to bail out while he manually held the plane as steady as possible so they could jump. Zilberman went down with the aircraft on March 31. His last act earned him the Distinguished Flying Cross. "His three crewmen are alive today because of his actions," Navy Rear Adm. Philip S. Davidson wrote to Zilberman's parents, Jewish emigrants from the Soviet Union who settled in Columbus, Ohio, in 1991.