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Experts person started analysing the achromatic boxes recovered from a jet clang successful Turkiye that killed 8 people, including Western Libya's subject chief, the Turkish Defence Ministry said connected Thursday (December 25, 2025). The probe was being done successful coordination with Libyan officials.
The backstage pitchy with Gen. Muhammad Ali Ahmad al-Haddad, 4 different subject officers and 3 unit members crashed connected Tuesday aft taking disconnected from Ankara, Turkiye's capital, sidesplitting everyone connected board. Libyan officials said the origin of the clang was a method malfunction connected the plane.
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Al-Haddad 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 institutions.
The high-level Libyan delegation was connected its mode backmost to Tripoli, Libya's capital, aft holding defence talks successful Ankara aimed astatine boosting subject practice betwixt the 2 countries.
The wreckage was scattered crossed an country covering 3 quadrate kilometres (more than a quadrate mile), complicating betterment efforts, according to Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya.
A 22-person delegation, including 5 household members of those killed connected board, arrived from Libya aboriginal connected Wednesday to assistance successful the investigation.
Libya plunged into chaos aft the country's 2011 uprising toppled and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi. The state split, with rival administrations successful the eastbound and west, backed by an array of rogue militias and antithetic overseas governments.
Turkiye has been the main backer of Libya's authorities successful the west, but has precocious taken steps to amended ties with the eastern-based authorities arsenic well.
