Iran's President Missing After Helicopter Crash

[Kanye Wyoming]

And in all seriousness just cause one shit head is gone doesn’t mean an even worse shit head won’t
take over

Or worse yet the religious leaders

Good point. And some of the commentary out there is to the effect that the kiboshing of the Foreign Minister will have more of a short term practical effect, whereas Raisi’s is more symbolic.

Don’t know enough Iranian inside baseball to judge. One good point someone made was that by clearing the path for Khamenei’s son to succeed him, the Supreme Leadership will come to be viewed as something of a hereditary monarchy. Does that make a difference? Again, don’t know enough Iranian inside baseball to judge.

I do know enough Iranian expats to know that there will be wild celebrations when, one day, the current regime is no more.

[TGS]

I’m no expert on aviation or search and rescue or the topography along the Iranian-Azerbaijani border, but by all accounts it crashed (or had a “hard landing”) in a remote, mountainous area and weather conditions are very difficult.

https://twitter.com/@twitter/status/1792284982607540416

I know what you're saying makes sense, but....

*glances at clock to verify it's still 2024*

....even with an old Bell 212, likely chosen on purpose for its analog technology, there are instruments and practices utilized in the protection of world leaders that make locating this helicopter a trivial manner outside of a cascading series of monumental failures, unless they happened to fly into a giant lead box that magically sealed itself.

From my personal experience working with the Iranians, they're quite attentive to their protectees. This isn't some random helicopter that simply failed to land at the time indicated on their filed flight plan, and nobody knows where it went after takeoff.

Color me skeptical, and I'm the guy here that's almost always shitting on conspiracy theories. Maybe he wasn't purposely shot down, but somebody slow-rolling the rescue effort to ensure he dies of hypothermia first sounds more plausible to me than, "oh, you know, it's like, in the mountains bro. And it's bad weather. And we know radio signals and satellite signals get blown off course by wind, so, yeah, it's hard to find him. And none of the helicopters escorting him noticed where he went down, either. "

[Glenn E. Meyer]

No expect here, of course, the news videos show American style copters (someone will know the specifics) and the weather looks like you shouldn't fly in it. Of course, I could see the big wigs insisting that they fly.

[LittleLebowski]

I’m really looking forward to moving to Wyoming and laying low there the rest of my life.

[GyroF-16]

I’m really looking forward to moving to Wyoming and laying low there the rest of my life.

@Suvorov and I will come a bit north and we’ll set up a compound…

[GJM]

I have friends that worked for Bell Helicopter in Iran, doing the training under the Shah. Apparently they are still using many of those same Bell and Bell Augusta helicopters today. One of my friends thinks the helicopter may have been a 214ST, which was developed at the request of the Shah. Flying helicopters in the mountains in bad weather isn't trivial, even for well trained crews in well maintained more modern helicopters.

On another topic, apparently the Ospreys are limited to flights of no more than 30 minutes from a suitable landing place. We have recently had a bunch of CH-53E helicopters in for training.

[the Schwartz]

President Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter didn't crash itself?

[Odin Bravo One]

Sometimes it is as simple as having someone on board who has yet to check the box for a helo crash…….. Murphy’s Law don’t go all Sharia and shit just cause you ain’t in Ireland.

[Chance]

Caption via WSJ:

In this photo provided by Moj News Agency, rescue teams coordinated in northwestern Iran on Sunday.

If that's the weather, I believe they're having trouble finding it. They might know it's "in this valley", but rescuers would have to be standing on top of the thing to actually see it.

[TGS]

If that's the weather, I believe they're having trouble finding it. They might know it's "in this valley", but rescuers would have to be standing on top of the thing to actually see it.

If only there were devices in 2024 that could pinpoint the location of a radio signal or satellite coordinate down to a few meters, which aren't affected by wind, rain and fog. Maybe one day we could even use them to deliver missiles over hundreds of miles, that'd be pretty cool.

If only.