Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was reportedly on a helicopter that crashed Sunday as the regime continues to fuel its war against Israel through Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon. The details about the situation are thin, but Iranian media channels have asked for people to pray. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian may have also been on board. The Iranian government is holding an emergency session in response to the situation.
edit: different reports are calling this a "hard landing" due to bad weather and fogThis message has been edited. Last edited by: sdy,
May 19, 2024, 10:21 AM
12131
[Seinfeld]That's a shame.[/Seinfeld]
Q
May 19, 2024, 10:22 AM
kz1000
Mazel Tov!
------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt"
"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." -Bomber Harris
May 19, 2024, 10:24 AM
nhtagmember
here's hoping for the best possible outcome on this fine Sunday morning
May 19, 2024, 10:29 AM
12131
quote:
edit: different reports are calling this a "hard landing" due to bad weather and fog
Iranian state media calls it "rough landing". Okie doke.
Q
May 19, 2024, 10:35 AM
Balzé Halzé
He's very likely dead. Oh no...
Anyway, are there any good games on today?
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Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan
May 19, 2024, 10:50 AM
YooperSigs
Autorotation. Its a helicopter thing!
End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles
May 19, 2024, 11:04 AM
mike28w
My only questions is : Was it US, Israel, or Iran ?? Hard to predict that one....
May 19, 2024, 11:19 AM
rat2306
Not sure if this article is any more informative, but some others are reporting that he is missing. Mountain terrain, dense fog, windy at times.
So, they can’t find the helicopter but they know it was a hard landing. Hmm. I guess a crash is an overly strong landing, I suppose.
May 19, 2024, 12:16 PM
Patrick-SP2022
I’d like to think it’s more like a rapid unplanned disassembly.
May 19, 2024, 12:17 PM
ArtieS
The aircraft reached the point where it lost the ability to sustain conditions essential for flight.
Or, what goes up, will come down. HOW it comes down is really all that matters.
"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."
Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.
May 19, 2024, 12:22 PM
blueye
Gravity's a bitch
May 19, 2024, 12:23 PM
selogic
That sudden stop will get you .
May 19, 2024, 12:28 PM
Flashlightboy
Sounds like it was Kobe like - controlled flight into terrain.
May 19, 2024, 12:29 PM
400m
You all are too kind… I hope the fucker burned slowly.
