The US-made Bell 212 helicopter that crashed in the city of Tabriz in northern Iran on Sunday killed President Ebrahim Raisi and his team members who flew from Azerbaijan.
No passengers were found alive when the wreckage of the plane, which Iran bought from the United States several years ago before the country’s 1979 revolution, was found.
The Bell 212 model aircraft was manufactured in Fort Worth, Texas, before the company moved to Mirabel, Quebec, Canada in 1988, and ceased operations in 1998.
Although the military began operating the plane in 1968, it was mainly used as a passenger plane.
It can be used for fighting and carrying goods and so on.
Sources say that the helicopter that Raisi boarded was upgraded to be able to carry 15 passengers.
The Bell 212 model aircraft, which can be driven by one or two drivers, is 17.41 meters long, and has a length of 3.83 meters from the ground to the top.
It weighs 2,962 kg when it is empty, and it can carry a load of 5,080 kg, and its engine has a weight of 1,300 kilowatts and two propellers, each of which is 14.63 meters long.
The plane can run at 190 kilometers per hour but can reach 220 kilometers per hour if it is to fight.
It can also travel 439 kilometers and reach a peak of 17,388 feet.
