The commanders of the army and the IRGC met with the families of the victims of the President's flight

The head of Iran’s crisis management agency, Mohammad Nami, told the semi-official Tasnim news agency that all of the bodies were identifiable, with “no need for DNA examinations”. He also said Ayatollah Al-e Hashem was alive for an hour after the crash and that he made contact with the head of the president’s office before he died. State media identified it as Bell 212, a model which was developed by a US company for the Canadian military in the 1960s. Iran’s navy and air force have a total of 10, according to FlightGlobal's 2024 World Air Forces directory, but it is unclear how many the Iranian government operates.