Theory about the last minutes of the helicopter carrying the President of Iran crashing

(Dan Tri) – Before the helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi crashed, ground agencies did not receive any emergency calls.

Rescuers at the scene of the helicopter crash (Photo: AFP).

Aviation analyst Kyle Bailey told Al Jazeera that the pilot or any other member of the crew did not make any emergency calls before the helicopter carrying Iranian President Raisi and a number of officials.

When a helicopter experiences serious technical problems mid-flight, the pilot’s first task is `to keep the plane flying, then to communicate,` he explained.

`Basically, we did not see any communication (of the helicopter carrying President Raisi), because the pilot was probably only focused on landing the helicopter or keeping it in the sky,` he said.

He hypothesized about the helicopter’s technical malfunction: `If we see a spiral motion where the helicopter rotates 360 degrees, clockwise or counterclockwise, that could indicate

According to him, pilots transporting the president are often skilled and experienced, but the helicopter is a `very complex machine.`

Mr. Bailey did not rule out the possibility that bad weather was the main cause of the accident: `The problem is that when the pilot took off, the weather was clear, then flew into mountainous, rugged terrain like a forest, appearing

Iran found the remains of the helicopter carrying President Raisi (Photo: Facebook).

The helicopter carrying Iranian President Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and 7 other people lost contact on May 19 after returning from a dam inauguration event on the border between Iran and Azerbaijan.

After an overnight search, Iranian officials confirmed on the morning of May 20 that all people on the helicopter had died.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced five days of national mourning to commemorate the victims.

First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber currently assumes the presidency, replacing Mr. Raisi, until elections are held in a maximum period of 50 days.

The helicopter crash took place in the context of escalating tensions in the Middle East, including war between Israel and Hamas and `tit for tat` attacks on each other’s territory between Israel and Iran.

Israel has not commented on the helicopter crash, but an Israeli official confirmed to Reuters that the country was not involved in the incident.