Iranian President Raisi missing after helicopter goes down
Iranian President Raisi missing after helicopter goes down
Rescue work is being hampered by thick fog.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi — often seen as a potential successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei— is missing after his helicopter went down in the northwest of the country on Sunday, officials said.
Iran’s Vice President Mohsen Mansouri said contact has been made with one of the helicopter passengers and one of the flight crew, although the connection had frequently been interrupted.
A report by official Iranian news agency IRNA says that it seems the incident was not serious, but does not provide an update on Raisi’s wellbeing or that of any other passengers. Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was also reportedly on board the aircraft.
Update (NYT):
The head of Iran’s Red Crescent Society, Pirhossein Kolivand, told state TV that search and rescue teams have not located the site of the helicopter crash after more than 10 hours of looking, and have made no contact with anyone on board. Any rumors to the contrary were false, he said. Kolivand said rescuers were using their best guesses to set the search area and had no confirmation of the exact location of the missing helicopter.
Update 2 (BBC)
President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and several others are confirmed to have been killed in Sunday's helicopter crash in north-western Iran, state TV says.
If the radio isn't working, the helicopter and the occupants were probably lost.
Or there could be poor signal due to terrain.
I understood it to mean they were in radio contact after the crash. Why even mention radio contact from before the crash?
Kobe!
Hopefully he prayed really hard
The CIA is up to something
Could be Mossad, too! Or wind, I guess; Helicopters are death traps
Helicopters are 100% death traps. They are very sensitive to up/down drafts often found in mountain terrain. They have no ability to glide like a plane in the event of an engine failure. If they're not pressurized/o2 equipped they have a maximum altitude which quickly becomes an issue when you are already in the thin air of a mountain.
The CIA played a long game for this one. First, they engineered the global warming, which led to cooler temperature than usual in that region, which led to fogs and low hanging clouds, which caused the crash of the helicopter carrying the president.
This guy gets it
Isn't the president mostly a puppet for the ayatollah? What would be the point of taking him out?
I'm putting my money on Boeing.
EDIT: can't take a joke
I wish
Reports say Vic Morrow was spotted on the ground 😔
Haha dark