Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash. Here is a list of political leaders who died in air crashes in the last few decades
Social MediaThe seventh president of the Philippines died in a plane crash on Mount Manunggal in Cebu in 1957
Son of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi died in 1980 when he lost control of his aircraft at Delhi's Safdarjung Airport
The Mozambican president died in 1986 when his presidential aircraft crashed near the Mozambican-South African border, with allegations of South African involvement
The sixth president of Pakistan died in a plane crash near Bahawalpur, Pakistan, in 1988
The president of Rwanda alongwith President of Burundi Cyprien Ntaryamira died in 1994 when their plane was shot down by a missile near Kigali, Rwanda, which triggered the Rwandan genocide
Senior Congress leader and a former union cabinet minister died in aircraft crash in 2001, while traveling to Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh to address a public rally
The fourth President of the Republic of Poland died in 2010 after a Polish Air Force Tu-154 crashed near Smolensk, Russia