Background
He was born in a middle class religious family in Qazvin in 1950.
fighter pilot Major general military
He was born in a middle class religious family in Qazvin in 1950.
He was born in a middle class religious family in Qazvin in 1950. Babaei was a student at Dehkhoda primary school and graduated from Nezam Vafa high school. After graduating in 1969 he moved to the United States to become a fighter pilot.
During his studies in the United States he was chosen as the volleyball captain of the airbase volleyball team
He was killed in 1987. After returning to Iran following flight training, he became a pilot of Northrop F-5 and trained on the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II and Grumman F-14 Tomcat. He became the commander of 8th Tactical Airbase in 1981.
Aviation journalist and Iran-Iraq air war expert Tom Cooper reports that Babaei was.. to the new regime.
Cooper"s research indicates:. Colonel Abbas Baba’ie, an officer differently described as the “mastermind of IRIAF’s capability to keep its F-14-fleet intact”, or simply a “war hero”.
There are, however, numerous former IRIAF pilots who not only deny that Baba’ie ever even qualified on F-14s, but also outright refuse to even mention his name, most likely because of his close cooperation with the clerical regime in Tehran. General Abbas Babaei was killed on August 6, 1987, while in the rear seat of a F-5B while over Iraqi air space.
He was hit by a 23mm round of a domestic air defence system by mistake.
The pilot, Major Ali Mohammad Naderi managed to land the jet, but Babaei died within 10 minutes. The Iraqis used the ZSU-23 self-propelled, radar guided anti-aircraft weapon system (SPAAG) at the time.
In 2011, The Delight of the Flight was showed in Channel 1.
The film was about Babaei"s lifetime.