Raisi Chopper Crash Foul Play Or Technical Glitch?: Speculations Rise On Iran’s President’s Death

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A Bell 212 helicopter carrying Iran's president and foreign minister crashed on Sunday, according to Iranian state media, as it flew through mountains in heavy fog. The tragic crash claimed the lives of the Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Affairs Minister Amir Abdollahian and other officials travelling in the ill-fated helicopter. The helicopter was carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, the governor of Iran’s East Azerbaijan province and other officials and bodyguards, according to the state-run IRNA news agency. Raisi was returning from a trip to Iran’s border with Azerbaijan earlier Sunday to inaugurate a dam with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, the news agency said. The helicopter apparently crashed or made an emergency landing in the Dizmar forest between the cities of Varzaqan and Jolfa in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province, near its border with Azerbaijan, under circumstances that remain unclear. Initially, Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi said the helicopter “was forced to make a hard landing due to the bad weather and fog.”

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00:00 A Ben-212 helicopter carrying Iran's President and Foreign Minister crashed on Sunday, according

00:23 to Iranian state media, as it flew through mountains in heavy fog.

00:27 The tragic crash claimed the lives of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Affairs Minister

00:32 Amir Abdullahi and other officials travelling in the ill-fated helicopter.

00:37 The helicopter was carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country's foreign minister,

00:41 Hossein Amirabdollahi, the governor of Iran's East Azerbaijan province, and other officials

00:45 and bodyguards, according to the state-run IRNA news agency.

00:48 Raisi was returning from a trip to Iran's border with Azerbaijan early Sunday to inaugurate

00:53 the dam with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev, the news agency said.

00:58 The helicopter apparently crashed or made an emergency landing in the Bismarck forest

01:02 between the cities of Varzakhan and Jolfa in Iran's East Azerbaijan province, near its

01:07 border with Azerbaijan, under circumstances that remain unclear.

01:10 Initially, Interior Minister Ahmad Wahidi said the helicopter was forced to make a hard

01:15 landing due to the bad weather and fog.

01:17 Raisi, with other leaders and officials, was travelling aboard a Ben-212 helicopter.

01:23 The Ben-212 helicopter, now Bell Textron, a division of Textron Inc., developed the aircraft

01:27 for the Canadian military in the late 1960s as an upgrade of the original UH-1 Iroquois.

01:33 The new design used two turboshaft engines instead of one, giving it greater carrying

01:38 capacity.

01:39 The helicopter was introduced in 1971 and quickly adopted by both the US and Canada,

01:45 according to US military training documents.

01:48 As a utility helicopter, the UH in its military designation represents those words, the Bell-212

01:53 is meant to be adaptable to all sorts of situations, including carrying people, deploying aerial

01:58 firefighting gear, ferrying cargo, and mounting weapons.

02:03 The Iranian model that crashed on Sunday was configured to carry government passengers.

02:07 Bell Helicopter advertises the latest version, the Subaru Bell 412, for police use, medical

02:12 transport, troop transport, the energy industry, and firefighting.

02:16 According to its type certification document with the European Union Aviation Safety Agency,

02:20 it can carry 15 people, including the crew.

02:22 Non-military organizations that fly the Bell-212 include Japan's Coast Guard, law enforcement

02:27 agencies and fire departments in the US, Thailand's National Police, and many others.

02:32 It is not clear how many runs government operates, but its Air Force and Navy have a total of

02:36 10, according to Flight Global's 2024 World Air Forces Directory.

02:47 The most recent fatal crash of a Bell-212 was in September 2023, when a privately operated

02:51 aircraft crashed off the coast of the UAE, according to the Flight Safety Foundation,

02:56 a non-profit focusing on aviation safety.

02:58 The most recent Iranian crash of this type was in 2018, killing four people, according

03:02 to the organization's database.

03:05 Iran enters a period of mourning as Mohammad Mughdeir assumes interim leadership following

03:10 President Raisi's tragic demise in a helicopter crash.

03:14 Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei announced a five-day mourning period and tasked Mughdeir with overseeing

03:18 the executive branch until a new president is elected within 50 days.

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Raisi Chopper Crash Foul Play Or Technical Glitch?: Speculations Rise On Iran’s President’s Death

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