Helicopter with Iranian President goes down.

[Airwolf]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/helicopter-carrying-iranian-president-raisi-crashes-prompting-massive-search-operation-local-media-reports/ar-BB1mEY7b?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=b24ba2d877334c71fa34621ce3e972dc&ei=9

No news about the passengers and crew yet but I wouldn't put it past them to blame Israel event though the weather was not the best to be flying in.

[Drafe Hoblin]

Bye-bye, 'death to america' moron.

Iranians are celebrating while they can.

The crash-site is besieged by a blizzard and it looks like some bears are attacking some of the rescuers.

[Crazy Horse]

Bye-bye, 'death to america' moron.

Iranians are celebrating while they can.

The crash-site is besieged by a blizzard and it looks like some bears are attacking some of the rescuers.

The Bear Jew strikes again

[Airwolf]

It looks like three of their big guys were taken out in that crash. I wonder what kind of an idiot pilot takes off and flies into bad weather. Well, there that threat of getting shot if the Big Kahuna doesn't get home to his goats and gravy before 6:00.

[Ptarmigan]

Iranian women celebrate death of President Ebrahim Raisi, who led brutal crackdown on rights
https://nypost.com/2024/05/20/world-news/iranian-women-celebrate-president-ebrahim-raisis-death-by-dancing-toasting/

Scores of Iranian women posted videos of themselves celebrating the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Monday — openly dancing on his “dirty grave” after he oversaw a brutal crackdown on 2022 protests against the Islamic “morality police.”

Raisi, a reviled leader known as the “Butcher of Tehran,” died when his helicopter crashed in a remote region of the country Sunday.

While the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, announced five days of public mourning in the wake of the 63-year-old’s death, a slew of women took to social media to share clips of themselves throwing back drinks and otherwise cheering his demise.

“We freely dance and celebrate on your dirty grave,” one woman, Mersedeh Shahinkar, tweeted.

Ebrahim Raisi's death is not widely mourned in Iran. He killed many people following the death of Mahsa Amin.

[Ptarmigan]

Former Trump adviser suggests death of Iranian president could have been an inside job
https://justthenews.com/world/middle-east/former-trump-adviser-suggests-death-iranian-president-could-have-been-inside-job

Foreign policy expert and former adviser to former President Donald Trump, Walid Phares, suggested Wednesday that the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi could have been an inside job.

"The reports that we are getting is that there is a clan that follows that head of the Islamic Republic who wants his son to replace him," Phares said on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "Who blocked him? The president."

Earlier this week, Iranian President Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash in the mountainous area near Iran’s border with Azerbaijan.

Makes you go hmmmmmmmmm.

[Drafe Hoblin]

Phares should've studied the Kobe Bryant crash.  Same conditions.  Much older chopper.

What is it with these self-important private pilots who suddenly know more than experienced tower-personnel, when it comes to the horizon being the same color as the sky...

The same thing with John-John's private plane... the sky was the same color as the sea. 

" Sir, you might wanna wait an hour... "

[SVPete]

Phares should've studied the Kobe Bryant crash.  Same conditions.  Much older chopper.

What is it with these self-important private pilots who suddenly know more than experienced tower-personnel, when it comes to the horizon being the same color as the sky...

The same thing with John-John's private plane... the sky was the same color as the sea. 

" Sir, you might wanna wait an hour... "

Older helo, difficult for Iran to get parts, bad weather, mountainous area ... absent more info, the pilot made a bad decision about weather conditions, a storm hit, and the pilot flew into the side of a mountain he failed to see. I'm open to more and better information, but sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.