So, apparently earlier reports of a “hard landing” of the helicopter were accurate.
I always thought a “hard landing” was one you could walk away from. I guess the definition of a hard landing is different in Iran.
If there is “no sign of life” at the site, it must have been an especially hard landing.
Rolls Royce cars never break down. They do occasionally fail to proceed.
Iranian helicopters never crash, they just have hard landings.
If there is “no sign of life” at the site,
= = =
In one sense, these guys never did have any ‘life’, the kind that humans like to enjoy, and the kind they liked to suppress.
Hard landing in Farsi might mean large crater.
I guess the early reports were (sort of) a translation problem. In the West, a “hard landing” implies a generally survivable event, perhaps an autorotation when talking about helicopters.
Russia uses “Hard landing” where we would use “Crash”. it is thought that the Iranians must have followed a similar wordage in this incident. They quickly switched to “Crash”, apparently when they learned how it was being interpreted.