TEHRAN: A final investigation into the May helicopter crash that killed former Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has found that the crash was caused by bad weather, the agency investigating the case said on Sunday.
A helicopter carrying Raisi, 63, and his entourage crashed into a fog-shrouded mountain in northern Iran, killing the president and seven others, and triggering early elections.
According to state broadcaster IRIB, the main cause of the helicopter crash was the “complicated weather and atmospheric conditions of the region in spring”, said a special board investigating the dimensions and causes of the helicopter crash, state broadcaster IRIB said.
The report added that a “sudden appearance of dense and increasing fog” caused the helicopter to crash into a mountain.
Iran’s military similarly said in May that it had found no evidence of criminal activity in the crash that also killed Raisi’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian.
In August, the Fars News Agency cited poor weather conditions and the helicopter’s failure to board with two additional passengers against security protocol as the main causes of the May 19 crash.
But the Iranian armed forces quickly rejected the discovery, saying “what Persian news has said about the presence of two people in the helicopter against security protocols is completely false”.
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