The aging Bell helicopter went down in a foggy, remote mountainous region of Iran’s northwest on Sunday
Iranians carry the coffin of late president Ebrahim Raisi at the Imam Reza shrine during the funeral ceremony in the city of Mashhad on May 23.caught fire soon after it crashed into a mountain and there was no sign it was attacked, state media reported, citing the military’s crash investigators.
The statement from the general staff of the armed forces in charge of investigating the crash was read on state television late Thursday. The first statement on the crash did not lay blame but said more details would come after further investigation.The general staff’s statement said the communications between the control tower and the crew of the helicopter before the crash contained nothing suspicious.
There was no sign of anything shot at the helicopter and its flight path did not change, the statement said. . The crash site was discovered Monday morning with all eight on board dead.Many thousands of mourners packed the streets of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad on Thursday for the funeral of President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed four days ago in a helicopter crash, footage broadcast by Iranian media showed.
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