According to the Higher Investigation Committee, the presidential aircraft followed its planned route and did not deviate, and the pilot maintained communication with the other two helicopters that were part of the delegation.
The results confirmed the absence of signs of bullet impacts or similar in the remains of the aircraft, which caught fire after colliding with a hillside.
In this sense, he specified that the search operations lasted until 05:00, local time, on Monday due to the difficult terrain, the thick fog and the low temperatures.
By the way, the General Staff noted that the accident site was located with the help of Iranian drones, after which rescue teams went to the site, where no suspicious communications between the helicopter crew and the control tower were detected.
The report detailed the collection of a large amount of documents and evidence related to the accident, “but its detailed analysis will require more time.”
At dawn this Monday, National Television announced the death of President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and the delegation that accompanied them in a plane crash in the East Azerbaijan area.
President Raisi, Minister Abdollahian, the governor of East Azerbaijan, Malek Rahmati and the imam of Friday prayers of Tabriz (provincial capital) Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem were returning on Sunday from an inauguration ceremony for a dam on the border of Iran with Azerbaijan when their helicopter crashed in mountainous areas in the Varzaghan region.
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