Tragic Helicopter Crash Claims Lives of Iranian President, Foreign Minister, and Other Officials

In a devastating incident that has shocked the world, a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Imam of Tabriz, Ayatollah Hashem, and Governor of East Azerbaijan, Malek Rahmati, crashed in northwestern Iran. The crash occurred on May 19, 2024, while the officials were returning from a ceremony for the inauguration of a dam on Iran's border with Azerbaijan.

Plane Crash: The Mysterious Silence Of The Pilots Minutes Before The Plane Crashed In China

The control tower received no warning signals from the pilots of the crashed Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board. The doubts of the experts and the comparison with other episodes are similar to the accidents in which the pilot committed suicide

The Guangzhou area control center has not received any "mayday" or reports of abnormalities on board from the pilots of the China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 that crashed on March 21 near Wuzhou with 132 people on board.

And when they tried to contact the commander and first officer from the ground "several times" to understand why the plane had descended - without prior warning and authorization - no one ever responded. A few seconds later, the signal disappeared from the radar while the plane was traveling at 696 kilometers per hour.

Boeing 737 Flight: A Plane With 133 People On Board Crashes In Southern China

It is unknown if there are survivors of the crashed China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 flight.

A Boeing 737 passenger plane operated by China Eastern Airlines crashed in mountainous Teng county in the southern Guangxi province on Monday. On board were 133 people (124 passengers and 9 crew members)who had left from the city of Kunming, in southwestern China, in the direction of Guangzhou.

A Plane To Land In Belarus To Arrest A Dissident

The claws of Alexander Lukashenko's dictatorship even reach the air. The Belarusian president today ordered a Ryanair plane - which was flying over the country bound for Lithuania - to land in the Belarusian capital, Minsk. Inside was a famous opposition blogger, Roman Protasevich , who was arrested shortly after landing by the Belarusian police.

The activist was included in a list of fugitives after massive street protests last year following an election in which Lukashenko won a landslide victory amid widespread allegations of fraud. "Protasevich is exposed to the death penalty in Belarus," reported the Nexta Live network.

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Belaruscurrently holds in jail or in exile almost all of the candidates who ran last year against Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994. Journalists are threatened and torture has been frequent in prisons.

Today Top Stories || An Indonesian Passenger Plane Crashed | Bomb Blast In Kabul | A Second Impeachment, Pressured Donald Trump

A private airliner with 62 passengers on board has gone missing in Indonesia. According to local media, the plane of the private airline lost contact after take off, the plane was going from Jakarta to the western province. The plane was carrying 62 people, including six crew members. The Boeing 737 of the local airline disappeared from the radar four minutes after takeoff and at an altitude of 10,000 feet. Indonesia's transport minister has expressed fears that the plane may have crashed. The plane lost contact 4 minutes after takeoff. Before it went missing, the plane was flying at an altitude of 10,000 feet. The plane lost contact after 2 pm local time. Indonesian officials say they have found the black box of a Boeing 737 passenger plane that crashed into the sea near Jakarta on Saturday. Search teams are hopeful that they will soon be able to obtain vital information from devices that will help determine the cause of the crash.

Plane with 130 passengers fell into the water and broke l all survived

"All passengers survived" said the director general of air transportation in the ministry, Herry Bhakti. were traveling on a Boeing 737 of the low-cost Indonesian company Lion Air. The device, with "more than 130 people on board," missed the runway while landing at the international airport in Denpasar , on the Indonesian island of Bali, and fell directly into the sea, Bhakti explained, adding that unknown whether one was hurt. An AFP reporter saw seven passengers arriving by ambulance to the hospital in Denpasar, but the wounds seemed minor.The exact circumstances of the accident are unknown. meteorological conditions at the time of landing were good. Bali is a tourist destination.

Eleven killed in the crash of a military helicopter in Afghanistan

The Fall of a Black Hawk helicopter in the province of Kandahar, a Taliban stronghold, ended Thursday with 11 victims, including seven U.S. soldiers, which is the worst air indidente for U.S. troops in Afghanistan so far this year . The Taliban guerrillas claimed responsibility for the attack, something that several spokesmen NATO command in that country have questioned, saying only that they have opened an investigation into the incident. As confirmed by a spokesman for the International Security Force in Afghanistan from NATO, Brigadier General Gunter Katz, among the dead were seven American soldiers, three members of the National Security Force in Afghanistan and an interpreter, civil. In April the other Black Hawk accident had resulted in the deaths of four U.S. soldiers in another stronghold of the insurgency in Helmand province. "No one has survived," a spokesman said Thursday the guerrila Taliban, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, the Associated Press, making sure the helicopter crash was due to an attack by insurgents. The Black Hawk UH-60 model, fell in the district of Shah Wali Kot, north of the province, as confirmed by local authorities to NATO forces. They could not clarify whether the fall was accidental or work of an attack. In August last year, and Taliban guerrillas shot down a U.S. helicopter Chinhook , killing 30 U.S. soldiers (including 20 Navy SEALS, the elite team that wiped out Osama bin Laden), seven Afghans and an interpreter. That attack came under the start of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, within which will withdraw 30,000 troops this year. It is expected that U.S. troops have left the country before the end of 2014. The accident occurred Thursday less than a week later that killed six U.S. soldiers were killed by soldiers in Afghanistan in several separate incidents, a series of attacks that highlighted the extent of insurgent infiltration between the national security forces that country. The military helicopter accidents are not uncommon in Afghanistan.Many times problems are caused by technical or human error. In other, less attacks by the insurgents, who often use surface to air missiles.Particularly vulnerable to these attacks are Chinhook helicopters, a model of tandem rotors the U.S. military began using in 1962. In March, a Turkish helicopter crashed into a house on the outskirts of Kabul, the Afghan capital, in an accident that killed 12 Turkish soldiers and two civilians. That was the worst incident against Turkish troops in the 11 years of a military operation to that country providing more than 1,800 soldiers

Pakistan buries victims of plane crash

Most of the victims of the crash of a Pakistani airliner crashed near Islamabad, causing 127 deaths, have been buried over the weekend while research continues to elucidate the causes of the tragedy. The Bhoja Air flight from Karachi came down in fields near a village on the outskirts of the Pakistani capital on Friday evening, in the city's second major fatal air crash in less than two years. All 127 people on board -- 121 passengers and six crew -- were killed when the plane crashed and burst into flames at around 6:40 pm on Friday. There were 11 children among the dead. The crash came less than two years after the worst ever air disaster on Pakistani soil. In July 2010 an Airbus A321 operated by Airblue crashed into the hills overlooking Islamabad while coming in to land in heavy rain and poor visibility, killing all 152 people on board.