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Turkey says contact lost with business jet carrying Libyan chief of staff from Ankara
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleTurkey says it lost contact with a Falcon 50-type business jet with five passengers onboard, including Libya’s chief of staff, after it took off from the capital Ankara.
“Contact was lost at 20:52 local time with a Falcon 50-type business jet, tail number 9H-DFJ, departing from Ankara’s Esenboga airport bound for Tripoli at 20:10 local time,” Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya says in a statement posted on X.
Five passengers were onboard, including the Libyan chief of general staff, General Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, he adds.
He says the flight had made a request for an emergency landing while over the Haymana district of Ankara, but no contact was established afterward.
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