Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah confirmed the death of Libya’s military chief and four others in a plane crash in Türkiye on Tuesday.
Turkey’s interior minister said earlier air traffic controllers had lost contact with the Dassault Falcon 50-type jet carrying the Libyan military chief and others home after a trip to Turkey.
Ali Yerlikaya posted on X, The plane took off from Ankara’s Esenboga Airport at 8:10 pm local time. Contact with the jet was lost after 40 minutes, he said.
Yerlikaya said the plane issued an emergency landing signal near Hemana, a district south of Ankara, before all communications were cut off.
Libyan Prime Minister confirmed the death of the country’s military chief
Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah said in a statement on Facebook that the “tragic accident” occurred when the Libyan delegation was “returning from an official visit to Ankara.”
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Edited by: Roshni Majumdar