The helicopter that crashed while carrying Iran’s president and foreign minister on Sunday, killing both men, did not have its signal system turned on, or did not possess such a system, Turkish Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said on Monday.
According to Reuters, Uraloglu told reporters that since Iran fell within Turkey’s area of responsibility for emergency responses, the authorities had checked for a signal from the helicopter upon hearing news that it had crashed.
“But, unfortunately, [we think] it’s most likely that the signal system was turned off or that the helicopter did not have that signal system,” the minister explained. “Otherwise, our system would definitely see those signals, but they didn’t [this time].”
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