Posted on 05/19/2024 6:18:34 AM PDT by rdl6989
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state television reported, without immediately elaborating.
Raisi was traveling in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. State TV said the incident happened near Jolfa, a city on the border with with the nation of Azerbaijan, some 600 kilometers (375 miles) northwest of the Iranian capital, Tehran.
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Hard landings with a chopper. Those blades disconnect, it’s going to me a messy landing too.
DEI chopper pilot?
“Hard landing”; why didn’t the airline industry think of that euphemism? “Hard landing” is so much more pleasant than crash.
United 95 had a hard landing. America’s exit from Afghanistan was a glorious triumph. The Titanic had an aqueous docking. Yeaaah. That’s the ticket.
I do think it was the weather.
Per hour of travel, helicopters are about 85 times more dangerous than automobiles. Traveling in a school bus is about 850 times safer. That is Sniffy’s favorite. No malarky.
Pull!
And the laughing audience calls out in unison “How hard was it?”
Yeah it wasn’t so much a hard landing as it went down somewhere in a mountain range. Could just be mechanical failure or pilot error. Could be sabotage, including internal sabotage. Could be staged to garner sympathy. But reports are they can’t even locate it yet. Fog, darkness and terrain make it difficult.
All Americans and Europeans should keep “out of it” too! Not. Our. Fight.
Damn straight. Iran is like a different planet. Different values, language, culture, internal politics. Only concern is that they shouldn’t get a deliverable nuclear bomb, which they probably have already.
I told you we shouldn’t take up that DEI program.
If Iran doesn’t have a nuclear bomb by now, it’s because it is their choice not to.
Can anyone blame other countries for seeking nuclear weapons? I don’t!
Blame, shmame. The question you should be asking is, if Iran has nuclear bombs, what will Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iraq et al. do about it. What should they do about it.
Israel has had nuclear weapons, unofficially, for decades. But now, if Iran has nuclear weapons, the arms race is on. And neither Qatar, Iran, Saudi Arabia or Iraq can be counted on, if they have nuclear bombs, not to use them.
If one of those countries attacks the other, you will be “not blaming” them while the world explodes. Happy fall-out.
Maybe they will all destroy each other, so the rest of the world can breathe a sigh of relief. They are all awful.
That assumes they will be considerate enough to drop the bomb on a windless day, so the fall-out and radiation doesn’t spread. If they would do it with swords and spears, or even AK-47, you would be right. But nuclear bombs is a whole ‘nother thing.
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