The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Iran presented a preliminary report on the causes of the accident of the helicopter of President Raisi

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Iran has published the preliminary report of the high-level commission investigating the circumstances and causes of the accident of the helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi. IRNA agency writes about this. In the report, it is said that a significant part of the information in various professional, technical and general fields, which may be related to the causes of the accident, has been collected. According to the document, some operations require more time for the final conclusion. they are under investigation, but certain statements can be made as follows: The helicopter continued to follow the pre-planned route and did not deviate from it until approximately one and a half minutes before the incident. The pilot of the emergency helicopter was in contact with the other two helicopters in the group. No traces of bullet or other similar things were found in the wreckage of the accident helicopter. The accident helicopter caught fire after hitting the heights. Due to the difficulty of the terrain, fog and low temperature, the search operation continued into the night and continued into the night, and on Monday (ed: March 20) (i) at dawn (at 5:00 a.m.) with the help of (Iranian) drones, the exact location of the accident was determined, and the ground forces began a search operation in the area. There was also nothing suspicious in the conversations of the control tower with the flight crew. that most of the documents related to the helicopter crash have been collected and more time will be needed to study some details and documents, which after careful analysis and examination will be communicated to the people of Iran in subsequent announcements. In Atrpatan province, when he was returning from the opening ceremony of the reservoir on the border of Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan with the country's foreign minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and other officials. None of those in the destroyed helicopter survived.