DUBAI, May 19 (Reuters) - A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister crashed on Sunday as it was crossing mountain terrain in heavy fog, an Iranian official told Reuters, and rescuers were struggling to reach the site of the incident.
The official said the lives of Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian were “at risk following the helicopter crash”, which happened on the way back from a visit to the border with Azerbaijan in Iran’s northwest.
Oh great, another log onto the raging fire in the Middle East.
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I hope there’s a blancoliro or Mentour Pilot analysis of this aviation mishap. I’m guessing spatial disorientation or controlled flight into terrain.
Almost as if you shouldn’t fly a helicopter through foggy mountains…¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That’s what got Kobe.
Is this a different story than the other hard landing story about some leader?
It’s the same story. I believe the first official Iranian statement had language like “involved in a hard landing” without anything else.
They have since turned to asking for prayers for their safe recovery, and apparently asked the EU for satellite imaging to help with search and rescue. [this is from a New York Times timeline that I recently read.]
Well, a crash is a hard landing of sorts…
I’m not familiar with the story you’re referring to, but typically a hard landing doesn’t necessitate a search/rescue team. Unless it’s a very hard “landing” into the side of a mountain, for example.
The fact that they haven’t found them yet, indicates a very hard landing indeed.
Or just really difficult terrain, give that it’s foggy so you can’t just look for smoke.
Same story
I guess it doesn’t matter if Israel is behind this or not, because they’re going to get the blame in any case…
Hopefully not. Helicopters legitimately do just crash a lot in foggy conditions, and rugged terrain doesn’t help.
If it was Israel, they did a very good job picking a moment Raisi was likely to die anyway.
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I’m not sure bias checking Reuters is really necessary.
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