{"id":56630,"date":"2025-12-24T07:31:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/libya-s-army-chief-of-staff-4-other-officials-killed-in-plane-crash-near\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T07:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:21:16","slug":"libya-s-army-chief-of-staff-4-other-officials-killed-in-plane-crash-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/libya-s-army-chief-of-staff-4-other-officials-killed-in-plane-crash-near\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya&#8217;s army chief of staff, 4 other officials killed in plane crash near Turkish capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish gendarmerie units located the wreckage of the Falcon 50 jet near Kesikkavak village in Ankara&#8217;s Haymana district, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said.<\/p>\n<p>Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah later confirmed the deaths in a statement, saying al-Haddad and several senior military officials were killed when the aircraft crashed while returning from an official visit to T\u00fcrkiye. He said the government would investigate &#8220;the circumstances of the accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft, with tail number 9H-DFJ, departed Ankara&#8217;s Esenboga Airport at 20:10 local time (1710 GMT) bound for Tripoli. Contact was lost at 20:52 (1752 GMT), shortly after the crew issued an emergency landing notification near Haymana, Yerlikaya said.<\/p>\n<p>T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s Anadolu Agency broadcast footage it said showed a flash from the aircraft&#8217;s impact and published images of debris scattered at the site. Air traffic at Ankara, which was briefly suspended following the crash, has since returned to normal, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Haddad had been in Ankara for high-level military talks. Earlier on Tuesday, the Turkish Defense Ministry said he met Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler and Chief of the General Staff Selcuk Bayraktaroglu.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-99633\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dc08a5ee3285d6c40e573d6ae0a8f86dd5435dee.jpg\" alt=\"The Turkish defence ministry took this photo of Libya&#039;s Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Mohammed al-Haddad in his meeting in Ankara, just hours before his fatal plane crash \u00a9 HANDOUT \/ TURKISH DEFENCE MINISTRY\/AFP\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libya&#8217;s army chief of staff, Mohammed al-Haddad, and four other military officials were killed when their business jet crashed south of Ankara on Tuesday evening, Libyan and Turkish authorities said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000099632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-56630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000099632,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/dc08a5ee3285d6c40e573d6ae0a8f86dd5435dee.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/dc08a5ee3285d6c40e573d6ae0a8f86dd5435dee.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/dc08a5ee3285d6c40e573d6ae0a8f86dd5435dee.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/dc08a5ee3285d6c40e573d6ae0a8f86dd5435dee.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/dc08a5ee3285d6c40e573d6ae0a8f86dd5435dee.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/dc08a5ee3285d6c40e573d6ae0a8f86dd5435dee.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000099632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56630"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=56630"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=56630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}