What you have to know about the crashed helicopter?

Here are some facts about the US-manufactured Bell 212 helicopter:

• Bell Helicopter (now Bell Textron) developed the aircraft in the late 1960s as an upgrade of the original UH-1 Iroquois for the Canadian military.
• The new design used two turboshaft engines instead of one, giving it greater carrying capacity.
• According to US military training documents, the helicopter was introduced in 1971 and quickly adopted by both the United States and Canada.
• The craft is designed to carry aerial firefighting gear and cargo and to mount weapons.
• This particular helicopter had been reconfigured to carry 15 people, including a pilot.
• Sanctions have made it difficult for Iran to obtain parts or new aircraft.
• The most recent fatal crash of a Bell 212 was in September 2023, when a privately operated aircraft crashed off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, according to the Flight Safety Foundation, a non-profit focusing on aviation safety

source: Ajaz