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Multiple teams connected Wednesday (December 24, 2025) intensified their operations astatine the tract of a level clang that killed Libya's subject chief, and 7 different members, moving to unafraid the country and find the aircraft's formation recorders, Turkiye's state-run quality bureau said.
The backstage pitchy carrying Gen. Muhammad Ali Ahmad al-Haddad, 4 different officers and 3 unit members crashed successful Turkiye connected Tuesday (December 23, 2025) aft taking disconnected from the capital, Ankara, sidesplitting everyone connected board.
Libyan officials said the origin of the clang was a method malfunction connected the plane. The Libyan delegation was connected its mode backmost to Tripoli aft holding high-level defence talks successful Ankara aimed astatine boosting subject practice betwixt the 2 countries.
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Following the incident, Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamid Dbeibeh took into Facebook, describing the incidental connected Facebook arsenic a “tragic accident” and a “great loss” for Libya. State-run Anadolu bureau said Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya is expected to sojourn the tract on with prosecutors assigned to pb the investigation.
Al-Hadad was the apical subject commandant successful occidental Libya and played a important relation successful the ongoing UN-brokered efforts to unify Libya's military, which has split, overmuch similar Libya's different institutions. The 4 different officers who died successful the clang were General Al-Fitouri Ghraibil, the caput of Libya's crushed forces, Brigadier Gen. Mahmoud Al-Qatawi, who led the subject manufacturing authority, Mohammed Al-Asawi Diab, advisor to the main of staff, and Mohammed Omar Ahmed Mahjoub, a subject lensman with the main of staff's office. The identities of the 3 unit members were not instantly released.
In an announcement, the Turkish officials said the Falcon 50-type concern pitchy took disconnected from Ankara's Esenboga airdrome astatine 8:30 pm. “The level notified aerial postulation power of an electrical responsibility and requested an exigency landing. The craft was redirected backmost to Esenboga, wherever preparations for its landing began. The plane, however, disappeared from the radar portion descending for the exigency landing”, the Turkish statesmanlike communications bureau said.
The wreckage remains of the level were recovered adjacent Kesikkavak colony successful Haymana, astir 70 kilometres, southbound of Ankara. The paramilitary unit sealed disconnected the clang site, portion the Turkish catastrophe absorption agency, AFAD, acceptable up a mobile coordination centre, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. Specialised vehicles, specified arsenic tracked ambulances, were deployed due to the fact that of the muddy terrain.
Libya plunged into chaos aft the country's 2011 uprising toppled and killed dictator Muamar Qadhafi. The state was split, with rival administrations successful the eastbound and west, backed by an array of rogue militias and overseas governments. Turkiye has been allied with Libya's authorities successful the west, but has precocious taken steps to amended ties with the eastern-based authorities arsenic well.
Libyan delegation’s Tuesday (December 23, 2025) sojourn came a time aft Turkiye's parliament approved extending the mandate of Turkish troops serving successful Libya for 2 years. Turkiye deployed troops pursuing a 2019 information and subject practice statement that was reached betwixt Ankara and the Tripoli-based government.
