The helicopter crash in which the Iranian president died, Ebrahim Raisi, It was due to a “technical failure”according to the state agency ‘IRNA’, while a commission has been created to investigate the cause of the incident.

Information that comes at the same time that new images have been discovered of the state of the helicopter in which the Iranian president lost his life along with his Foreign Minister, Hosein Amir Abdolahian, and five other people. According to Turkish aviation authorities, The device did not have signaling and navigation aid systems or, at least, they were not in operation.

The accident helicopter was an American ‘Bell 212’, twin-engine and with capacity for 15 people, acquired in 1970 and of which there is doubt about its state of maintenance, according to the Hamshahri newspaper. Among the first speculations was the involvement of other governments in the accident, an option that rules out this information and also Guillermo Martínez Rabadán, a doctor in Arab Islamic Studies.

“Everything seems to indicate that it really was an accident: It was a mountainous area, there was a lot of fog, the conditions were unfavorable but the president and his team were determined and took risks to make this trip. Possible conspiracies about the possible involvement of governments do not seem true,” he explained to laSexta.

At the same time, the Chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Mohamad Hosein Baqeri, stated that “a high-ranking commission has been created to investigate the causes of the accident,” reported the Iranian agency Tasn, linked to the Revolutionary Guard.

The helicopter in which Raisi and his companions were traveling disappeared on Sunday when it was returning from Tabriz along with two other devices (which reached their destination without problems) and the official Iranian media then reported that it had suffered a “forced landing”, without explaining the causes.