Libya’s military chief of staff and other senior officers were killed when their plane crashed near Ankara after reporting a technical malfunction.
Mohammad Ali Ahmad Al-Haddad, chief of general staff of the internationally recognised Tripoli-based government, had departed Ankara late on Tuesday in a private jet after talks with his Turkish counterpart and the country’s defence minister, Yaşar Güler.
Four other people from Ahmad’s delegation — including Al-Fitouri Ghraibil, the head of Libya’s ground forces — and three crew members were also on board the plane, whose crew had said they would attempt an emergency landing. Everyone on board was killed, Turkish authorities said.
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