Libya’s army chief of staff and seven others on board perished on Tuesday after a private jet carrying them over Turkey requested an emergency landing, citing an electrical fault.
The Dassault Falcon 50 jet, which took off from Ankara Esenboga Airport, crashed near the district of Haymana shortly after contacting aviation authorities about the malfunction.
The death of Libya’s chief of staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, and four members of his entourage shocked Turkey, as Haddad was in the country on an official visit. Earlier that day, he had been hosted by his Turkish counterpart, Selcuk Bayraktaroglu.
The crash occurred a day after Turkey’s parliament passed a decision to extend the mandate for the deployment of Turkish soldiers in Libya by two more years.
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