Libya says Military Chief, four others killed in airplane crash in Turkiye

Libya’s Prime Minister said the country’s Chief of Staff was killed in an airplane accident in Turkiye, after he visited Ankara.

“It is with deep sadness and great sorrow that we learnt of the death of the Libyan Army’s Chief of General Staff”, Mohammed al-Haddad, Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah said on his Facebook page.

He called it a “great loss” for Libya. Officials in Libya said contact with the plane was lost about half hour into the flight because of a technical malfunction.

The private jet carrying al-Haddad and four other people crashed after takeoff from the Turkish capital. The jet lost all radio contact after issuing an emergency landing alert near the Haymana district South of Ankara, Turkish officials said.

Turkiye did not immediately confirm the deaths, only that wreckage of the Falcon 50 type business jet has been found. 

(Daily Sabah)