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Lieutenant General Mohammed Al Haddad and four other senior military officials died after the private jet they were traveling in crashed after taking off from Ankara, Turkey, on Tuesday (23/12) evening local time.
This incident occurred when Al Haddad and his delegation were returning home after a working visit to Türkiye.
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The private jet Haddad was on took off from Ankara’s Esenboga Airport at 1710 GMT and “contact was lost” 42 minutes later.
The jet carried a total of eight people, including Haddad, four members of his delegation, and three crew members.
Head of Turkey’s Presidential Communications Directorate Burhanettin Duran said the flight crew had “reported an emergency to the air traffic control center due to electrical problems and requested an emergency landing” before contact was lost.
The plane sent a notification requesting an emergency landing near Haymana, about 74 kilometers from Ankara, but communications could not be restored.
A senior Turkish official said the plane requested an emergency landing due to an electrical system failure 16 minutes after takeoff.
Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya reported that the wreckage of the Falcon 50 plane carrying Libyan military officials was found by Turkish security forces in the Haymana district, near Ankara.
A number of Turkish media broadcast images showing the sky lit up by an explosion not far from the location of the plane’s last signal.
A Haymana resident, Burhan Cicek, recalled the moments the plane crashed.
“I heard a big explosion. Like a bomb,” he said
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Earlier on Tuesday, Haddad held a meeting in Ankara with Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler and his Turkish counterpart, Selcuk Bayraktaroglu, before leaving for Tripoli.
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, besides Haddad, other passengers on the plane included Haddad’s advisor, Mohammed Al Assawi, as well as Major General AlFitouri Ghraibil, Major General Mohammed Jumaa, and their bodyguard, Mohammed AlMahjoub.
Haddad has served as Chief of General Staff of the Libyan Army since August 2020 and was appointed by the then Prime Minister, Fayez Al Sarraj.
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