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Post by Admin on May 22, 2024 23:14:55 GMT
Iran's presidential chief of staff, Esmaili Esmail, said on state television on the 21st that there were three helicopters in flight at the time of the accident, and Esmaili's helicopter was flying behind the presidential helicopter.
Approximately 45 minutes after takeoff, the pilot of the presidential plane instructed him to increase the altitude to avoid clouds, and shortly after that he lost sight of the presidential plane.
Until now, state media has reported that the cause of the accident was bad weather, but Mr. Esmaili said that the weather was fine when the presidential plane disappeared from sight, but that the weather changed completely an hour or two later with thick fog. I testified.
He also testified that he was able to contact one of the passengers on the presidential plane several times by cell phone. The passenger said, ``I fell into a valley. I don't know what happened,'' but he stopped responding about three hours later.
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Post by Admin on May 23, 2024 7:13:36 GMT
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Post by Admin on May 24, 2024 4:06:07 GMT
According to state media, the military's General Staff released an investigation report on the 23rd into the helicopter crash that killed President Raisi and others in northwestern Iran.
[At a glance] Iranian presidential accident site
The helicopter flew on a designated route, and there were "no signs of any attack" on the wreckage, indicating that no suspicious signs were found and that it was an accident. Part of the investigation will continue and a final report will be released at a later date.
According to reports, the pilot of the crashed helicopter had been communicating with two other helicopters about a minute and a half before the accident. Rescue operations were delayed due to the complex topography of the site, as well as bad weather with dense fog and low temperatures, and an Iranian drone located the crash site in the early morning hours of the 20th, the day after the accident. It was initially reported that a drone sent by Turkey first detected the aircraft's heat source in the mountains.
Meanwhile, Raisi's body was buried on the 23rd in his hometown of Machado, a holy site for Shiite Muslims in the northeast, and a large number of citizens filled the streets to see off his coffin.
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