Turkish AKINCI UAV played a crucial role in identifying the wreckage of Iranian President Raisi’s helicopter.

— For the first time in history, a search and rescue operation was broadcast live through an UAV camera, attracting an audience of over 5 million viewers.

— Despite adverse weather conditions forcing other search and rescue aircraft to land, the Bayraktar AKINCI UAV successfully completed its mission and safely returned to its base in Türkiye.

Minute-by-Minute: Turkish AKINCI UAV's 7 hours and 27 minutes long search for Iranian President Raisi’s Crashed Helicopter

8.00 PM: Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs requested a night-vision search and rescue helicopter from Türkiye's Ministry of National Defense (MoD). The MoD proposed deploying a strategic-class Bayraktar AKINCI UAV alongside the helicopter.

8.20 PM: Iranian officials accepted the proposal, and the MoD instructed the General Staff to prepare.

10.30 PM: The MoD issued a border crossing order for the AKINCI A6, which was already airborne and armed.

11.00 PM: The border crossing was canceled as Iranian authorities did not approve the armed Bayraktar AKINCI.

11.18 PM: The unarmed AKINCI A5 took off from Batman.

00.13 AM: The UAV crossed the border from the Van region.

00.45 AM: The AKINCI A5 arrived at the target area, flying at an altitude of 30,000 feet.

02.22 AM: Due to poor weather and difficulty in capturing footage from high altitude, the drone descended gradually to 9,000 feet, where it detected the first heat source.

02.37 AM: Footage from the Bayraktar Akıncı were shared with Iranian authorities.

04.30 AM: Iranian search and rescue teams arrived in the area.

05.46 AM: The teams located the helicopter wreckage.

05.50 AM: Iranian officials thanked the MoD and requested the drone's withdrawal, as other aircraft were entering the area.

06.01 AM: The AKINCI A5 began its return journey, ascending in altitude.

06:45: The drone re-entered Turkish airspace.

Note: (UTC+3)

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To gain a clear view of the area, Turkish authorities took all necessary risks, and AKINCI descended to an altitude of 210 meters above the mountains, which stand at 8,300 feet, in a region that peaks at 9,000 feet. The wind in the region was blowing at 150 km/hr.

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Turkish Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloglu:

Iran is within our maritime and air search and rescue area of responsibility. We also monitor the signals of all air and sea vehicles. At first, we followed whether the helicopter transmitted a signal or not.

Unfortunately, the signal system of the helicopter was turned off or the helicopter did not have that signal system.

Surely those signals would have been detected by us, but there weren’t any.

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#FYI This was the ring worn by Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian military officer and commander of the Quds Force.

It played a significant role in his identification after his assassination by a U.S. drone strike on January 3, 2020.