Helicopter carrying Iran's President Raisi crashes, search under way
https:// www.reuters.com /world/middle-east/helicopter-iranian-presidents-convoy-accident-says-strate-tv-2024-05-19/ Helicopter carrying Iran's President Raisi crashes, search under way
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.
61Iran’s president is dead and the King of Saudi Arabia is likely on his way out, but on the other hand, neither of these two wielded actual power.
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Reuters – Bias and Credibility
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Factual Reporting: Very High
Country: United Kingdom
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44I hope there’s a blancoliro or Mentour Pilot analysis of this aviation mishap. I’m guessing spatial disorientation or controlled flight into terrain.
18Almost as if you shouldn't fly a helicopter through foggy mountains...¯\_(ツ)_/¯
35That’s what got Kobe.
22"Say...what's a mountain goat doing way up here in a cloud bank?"
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Throw in an admiral cloudburg article and its perfect.
I'm going to call it CFIT simply because its most likely and I doubt Iran will investigate well enough to find anything else.
Unless its a murder and the pilots dumped the body and flew somewhere else.
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I guess it doesn't matter if Israel is behind this or not, because they're going to get the blame in any case...
11Hopefully 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 somewhat likely to die anyway.
27Their helicopters are also generally old and with scarce replacement parts due to sanctions. Mechanical failure could easily be the case if not the terrain.
3Helicopters and IMC don't seem to mix particularly well.
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Is this a different story than the other hard landing story about some leader?
10It’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.]
24Same story
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he died... wow
6This guy was a real piece of shit. Fingers crossed he’s dead.
5He is, the Iranian media and government confirmed
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Are we allowed to celebrate someones death in this lemmy community? If so color me celebrated!
3who is next in the chain of succession and what type of dillhole are they
3lol helicopters. Pilot must have sneezed.
2Reuters – Bias and Credibility
Bias Rating: Least Biased
Factual Reporting: Very High
Country: United Kingdom
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: Mostly Free
Media Type: News Agency
Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: High Credibility
1I'm not sure bias checking Reuters is really necessary.
5It's a good reminder of one of the good ones
But danm that formatting could use some cleaning up and brevity to a link
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