A Bell 212 helicopter carrying Iran’s President Ayatollah Ebrahim Raisi and foreign minister crashed on Sunday, according to Iranian state media, as it flew through mountains in heavy fog.

The Bell 212 he was flying crashed in a rural area near the fire front. Jean-Luc Deba, 54, of Montreal, died in May 2011 when his Bell 212 helicopter crashed into the water of Lesser Slave Lake ...

The crash killed all eight people aboard a Bell 212 helicopter that Iran purchased in the early 2000s, according to the state-run IRNA news agency. Among the dead were Iranian Foreign Minister ...

although there was no official word on the cause of the crash. State news agency IRNA said Raisi was flying in a U.S.-made Bell 212 helicopter. Raisi, 63, was elected president in 2021 ...