How did Iran's President 's helicopter crash? - New and shocking details

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As it is known, on May 19, the helicopter carrying Iran's President Ibrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdullahian, Iranian Supreme Leader's representative for Tabriz Mohammad Ali Ali Hashim, Governor of East Azerbaijan Province Malik Rehmati from Khudafarin to Tabriz had a hard landing in Varzagan district. 9 people died as a result of the incident.
How did the tragic incident happen? US aviation expert Kyle Bailey commented on the details of the incident and the possibilities of its occurrence in his statement to "Al Jazeera" .
According to him, if a serious technical problem occurs during the flight, the pilot's first task is to keep the plane in flight, and establishing communication is secondary. Kyle Bailey added that the pilot did not make contact in the crash that killed the Iranian leader either: "Because the pilot was probably too focused on landing the helicopter or keeping it in the sky."
An aviation analyst described the lack of communication between the helicopter's pilot and another flight crew member as a "serious control problem."
Bailey noted that the helicopter was broken into two parts: "From the fact that the helicopter was broken into two pieces, the tail rotor was likely sheared off, the result of the main rotor blade impacting the tail. This could have been caused by aerodynamic forces when the pilot maneuvered the helicopter to land, or possibly a technical failure. Another "Probably a tail rotor failure. If we see a 360-degree counter-clockwise spiral motion, that could indicate a tail rotor failure or out of control."
The expert said that adverse weather conditions and mountainous terrain can also cause fatal accidents. Crashed Bell 212 helicopter is manufactured in US. Bell Helicopter developed the aircraft in the late 1960s as an upgrade of the original UH-1 Iroquois for the Canadian military. The most recent fatal crash of a Bell 212 was in September 2023, when a privately operated aircraft crashed off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, according to the Flight Safety Foundation, a non-profit focusing on aviation safety

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