Political analyst Ali Fathollah-Nejad says the sudden death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has created a power vacuum because Raisi was a protege of Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, and was working on finding his successor. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #Iran #IranHelicopterAccident #IranianPresident #EbrahimRaisi #Raisi #EbrahimRaisiDies #AmirAbdolahian #IranMourns #IranSupremeLeader #AliKhamenei #IranianPresident
Iran’s Supreme Leader has declared five days of national mourning following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash. The wreckage was found early on Monday. The foreign minister, one of the nine on board, has also been confirmed dead. Al Jazeera’s Michael Appel reports on how events unfolded before and after the crash. To discuss this further, Hamidreza Azizi, a Nonresident Fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, joins from Berlin, and Alex Macheras, an independent aviation analyst and consultant, joins from Doha. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our […]
The crew of a Russian airliner are being hailed as heroes for miraculously emergency landing in a field in Siberia. All 165 passengers and crew were unharmed. Al Jazeera’s Dmitry Medvedenko reports. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #Russia #Siberia #Airbus #A320 #UralAirlines #U61383 #Sochi #Omsk #Aviation
A China Eastern Airlines passenger plane carrying 133 people has crashed in southwest China, state broadcaster CCTV reported. There was no information about any casualties in the incident on Monday as yet. The Boeing 737 plane crashed in the countryside near Wuzhou city in the Guangxi region. It “caused a mountain fire”, CCTV said, adding that rescue teams were dispatched to the scene. There was no word on the cause of the crash of the plane, which Flightradar24 identified as a 6-year-old 737-800 aircraft. Al Jazeera’s Katrina Yu joins us live from Beijing for the latest updates. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – […]
0 A passenger jet rained debris on the Denver suburbs, narrowly missing a home, after it suffered an engine failure shortly after takeoff on Saturday. The Honolulu-bound United Airlines Flight 328 made an emergency landing at Denver’s international airport when one of the Boeing 777-200 engines experienced trouble and caught fire. There were cheers of relief from passengers on the flight after a dramatic landing. Al Jazeera’s Kristen Saloomey reports. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #UnitedAirlines #Boeing777 #UA328
0 Rescuers are looking for wreckage from an Indonesian passenger plane believed to have crashed into the sea minutes after takeoff from the capital, Jakarta. A total of 62 people are feared dead. Rescue ships have been dispatched to the Thousand Islands chain, which is just north of Jakarta where authorities believe they have found debris of the plane. Al Jazeera’s Jessica Washington reports from Jakarta. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #Indonesia #SJ182 #SriwijayaAir
