After spotting a major helicopter wreckage, “Akinci” returns to Türkiye

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On Monday morning, the Turkish "Akinci" mission successfully completed its work in monitoring the location of the wreckage of the helicopter that was carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his accompanying delegation, and returned to Turkey.

The Iranian Tasnim Agency (semi-official) announced the death of President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, and their accompanying delegation in a helicopter crash yesterday, Sunday, in East Azerbaijan Province.

Iranian state television also confirmed the death of the president and foreign minister in the helicopter crash.

According to the "FlightRadar24" application, "Akinci" entered Turkish airspace after its mission in Iran.

Earlier on Monday morning, Iranian official television announced that there was no sign of life among the wreckage of Raisi’s helicopter that was found after the results of the Turkish “Akinci” march.

The head of the Iranian Red Crescent, Pir Hossein Kolivand, announced that the wreckage of the helicopter belonging to President Ebrahim Raisi had been found.

The Iranian Red Crescent sent search and rescue teams to two areas in which the Turkish Akinci drone identified a heat source in East Azerbaijan Province (northwest) to search for the helicopter that was carrying Raisi.

It is worth noting that the Turkish Ministry of Defense allocated an “Akinci” drone and a “Cougar” helicopter equipped with night vision technology to participate in search and rescue work for the Iranian president’s helicopter.

Through the “FlightRadar24” application, tens of thousands of people followed the path of the “Akinci” march as it worked to search for the location of the helicopter that was carrying the Iranian president and his accompanying delegation.

On Sunday, Iranian state television announced that a helicopter carrying President Raisi and a number of officials had been involved in an accident, after he participated with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, in the opening of a dam on the border of the two countries.

The television reported that three helicopters were carrying my president and officials during their return, and first aid teams were sent to the site of the accident.

For its part, Tasnim News Agency said that the helicopter that was involved in the accident was carrying Raisi.