{"id":42909,"date":"2026-02-24T13:35:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=42909"},"modified":"2026-02-24T13:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:50:21","slug":"army-helicopter-crashes-in-central-iran-killing-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/army-helicopter-crashes-in-central-iran-killing-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Army helicopter crashes in central Iran, killing four"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A helicopter belonging to the Iranian army&#8217;s Air Force crashed on Tuesday into a fruit market in the central province of Isfahan, killing four people, state media reported.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot, co-pilot and two fruit vendors on the ground were killed, the official IRNA news agency said, attributing the crash to &#8220;a technical malfunction&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The tragedy took place in the city of Khomeynishahr in Isfahan province.<\/p>\n<p>Sanctions-hit Iran has suffered several air disasters in recent years, with officials complaining of difficulties acquiring spare parts to keep its ageing fleets in the air.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, an Iranian fighter jet crashed, killing one of two pilots onboard during a late-night training exercise in the western Hamedan province, Iran&#8217;s state broadcaster said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A helicopter belonging to the Iranian army&#8217;s Air Force crashed on Tuesday into a fruit market in the central province of Isfahan, killing four people, state media reported. The pilot, co-pilot and two fruit vendors on the ground were killed, the official IRNA news agency said, attributing the crash to &#8220;a technical malfunction&#8221;. The tragedy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42911,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42909\/revisions\/42911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}