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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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Is this a different story than the other hard landing story about some leader?

[–] nahuse 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.]

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, a crash is a hard landing of sorts...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It’s on land. That’s a landing. Yiu didn’t specify in preflight check in that you required a safe landing.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The fact that they haven't found them yet, indicates a very hard landing indeed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Or just really difficult terrain, give that it's foggy so you can't simply look for smoke.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

At what point does it become just a crash.

Maybe this will help the Iranian people overthrow their oppressive theocratic government.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Doubt it, even if Khamenei was on board. Like everywhere else, there are just too many powerful people with too much to lose.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago