On 7th December 1948, he was part of the crew when Canadian pilot Ralph Moster was practicing with instructor Oliver Holton on a Grumman Widgeon seaplane for water take-offs and landings on the Sea of Galilee. Their plane was badly damaged on a landing when it hit the mirror-smooth water with great force. The plane sank in about twenty minutes, and all aboard drowned.
Alvin Levy was buried in Tiberias, and later re-interred in the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery.
On 29th September 1949, on the orders of the chief of staff, he was posthumously promoted to Flight Commander.
Source: Translated from the Yizkor website by Joe Woolf