He added that the IRGC's Ground Forces Commander Ahmad Kazemi, Commander of Rassoulollah Army Division 27 Saeed Mohtadi, Deputy Commander of Ground Forces for Operation Affairs Saeed Soleymani and the Official in Charge of Information for Ground Forces Hanif Montazer-Qaem were among those killed in the crash.
Also confirmed killed in the crash was the Commander of Artillery Unit Gholam-Reza Yazdani, 2 members of the Ground Forces' Command Office Hamid Azinpour and Mohsen Assadi, Deputy Commander of Ground Forces Safdar Reshadi along with pilot Abbas Karvandi and IRGC Colonels Ahmad Elhaminejad and Morteza Basiri.
The plane, a Falcon, crashed in Aidinlou village, 12 kilometers west of Orumiyeh, capital of the northwestern province of West Azarbaijan Monday morning.
even if this really *was* a typical planecrash, there is a lot more to this story than is being told...
one must also assume that it may be pure disinformation and these guys are still alive but off doing something sinister...