Radio contact has been lost with a jet carrying Libya’s army chief of staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed Al-Haddad, and four other people near the Turkish capital Ankara, Turkiye’s Interior Ministry says.
Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on X that the Falcon 50 business jet had taken off at 17:10 GMT on Tuesday and radio contact was lost at 17:52 GMT.
He said the flight, which was en route from Ankara to Tripoli, had made a request for an emergency landing while over the Haymana district of Ankara, but no contact was established afterwards.
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Turkey’s defence ministry had announced the Libyan chief of staff’s visit to Ankara earlier this week, saying he had met his Turkish counterpart and other military commanders.
Fflight tracking data showed flights being diverted away from Ankara’s Esenboga airport.
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