Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced on Tuesday that air traffic controllers lost contact with a private Falcon 50 plane carrying Libyan army chief General Mohamed Ali Ahmed-Al Haddad and four other people while returning home from a visit to Turkey.
Foreign media write that the plane departed from Esenboga Airport in Ankara at 8:10 p.m. (local time).
"Contact with the plane was lost after 40 minutes," Minister Yerlikaya said in a post on X.
This evening at 20.10'da Ankara Esenboğa Havalimanı'ndan Tripoli'ye gitmek to havalanan, queue number 9H-DFJ olan Falcon 50 type iş jetyle saat 20.52 itibarıyla irtibat kesilmılır.
— Ali Yerlikaya (@AliYerlikaya) December 23, 2025
Söz konusu väkatan Haymana pödatsı acil iniş kırınımı aşılı; but then uvakla...
The plane signaled an emergency landing near Haymana, a district south of Ankara, before all communication was lost.

Later, Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah confirmed the death of Libya's army chief and four other people in a plane crash.
In a statement on Facebook, the prime minister said the "tragic accident" occurred while the Libyan delegation was "returning from an official visit to Ankara."
This is the third air accident involving Turkey in about 40 days. On November 11, a C-130 transport plane crashed on the border of Georgia and Azerbaijan, killing all 20 people on board. Two days later, on November 13, a Turkish Canadair plane involved in a firefighting operation crashed in Croatia, killing both people on board.