Lt. General Jahanbani was married with two children (Ettela’at newspaper, March 14, 1979; Electronic Form, August 8, 2011).According to his relatives, Lt. General Jahanbani had been interested in flying since childhood (Deutsche Welle, October 29, 2013). He graduated from Russia’s piloting university and attended the jet pilot training school in Germany at a US-based training site (Electronic Form, August 8, 2011; Acrojet Film’s YouTube Channel, January 26, 2015). Lt. General Jahanbani had been interested in flying since childhood.