Plane crash in Turkey kills Libya’s army chief of staffReuters, ANKARA and TRIPOLIA private jet that crashed on Tuesday, killing Libya’s army chief of staff and seven others on board, had reported an electrical fault and requested an emergency landing shortly before contact was lost, a Turkish official said yesterday. Search teams found the black box of the plane early yesterday, Turkish Minister of the Interior Ali Yerlikaya said. Turkish Minister of the Interior Ali Yerlikaya, center, speaks at the site of a jet crash near Kesikkavak, Turkey, yesterday. Mohammed al-Menfi, head of the Tripoli-based Presidential Council, said that the deputy chief of staff would assume al-Haddad’s duties until a new chief is appointed. Al-Haddad, from the coastal city of Misrata about 200km east of Tripoli, was appointed chief of staff in 2020.

Source: Taipei Times December 24, 2025 16:11 UTC