{"id":11054,"date":"2025-12-24T12:25:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=11054"},"modified":"2025-12-24T13:16:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:16:50","slug":"search-efforts-continue-at-crash-site-of-jet-carrying-libyas-army-chief-near-ankara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/security\/search-efforts-continue-at-crash-site-of-jet-carrying-libyas-army-chief-near-ankara\/","title":{"rendered":"Search efforts continue at crash site of jet carrying Libya\u2019s army chief near Ankara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong>: Search and rescue teams intensified on Wednesday efforts at the crash site of a private jet near the Turkish capital Ankara that carried Libyan army&#8217;s Chief of Staff Mohammed al-Haddad and his accompanying delegation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aircraft that went down on Tuesday killed everyone on board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said that the wreckage of Falcon 50-type business jet, which took off from Ankara\u2019s Esenboga Airport en route to Tripoli, was found by gendarmerie teams about 2 kilometers (1.24 miles) south of Kesikkavak village in Haymana district of the province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Security forces located the wreckage overnight despite heavy rain and fog. Operations accelerated at daybreak, with gendarmerie units securing the area and preventing civilian access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) set up a mobile coordination center at the site, where Yerlikaya is also expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Libya\u2019s Government of National Unity declared three days of national mourning following the deaths.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA: Search and rescue teams intensified on Wednesday efforts at the crash site of a private jet near the Turkish capital Ankara that carried Libyan army&#8217;s Chief of Staff Mohammed al-Haddad and his accompanying delegation. The aircraft that went down on Tuesday killed everyone on board. Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said that the wreckage [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":11055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,342,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-politics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}