DUBAI, May 19 (Reuters) - A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister crashed on Sunday as it was crossing mountain terrain in heavy fog, an Iranian official told Reuters, and rescuers were struggling to reach the site of the incident.

The official said the lives of Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian were “at risk following the helicopter crash”, which happened on the way back from a visit to the border with Azerbaijan in Iran’s northwest.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Huh, TIL there’s a distinction. Where is mountainous considered to begin?

    I feel like if there was a pamphlet people got upon becoming rich and famous, “don’t helicopter through foggy mountains” would have to be on it.

    • Eggyhead@kbin.run
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      6 months ago

      Well, I suppose you could call a mountain rugged, but I wouldn’t say rugged is exclusively mountainous. I wanted to emphasize mountainous because I had an ESL student who was a pilot in training, and he had told me all about the dangers of mountains specifically.