Libyan Military Chief Dies in Turkey Jet Crash ✈️

Libya’s chief of general staff was killed on Tuesday night when his private jet crashed in Turkey having lost contact with air traffic control 40 minutes after leaving Ankara airport. General Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad had spent the day in high-level meetings with the Turkish defence minister, Yasar Guler, and was returning to Tripoli with three other high-ranking Libyan military figures and a photographer. All were killed, along with three crew.

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An emergency landing notification was received from the aircraft near the town of Haymana, about 80 kilometres southwest of the capital, Ali Yerlikaya, Turkey’s interior minister, said.

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