Electrical failure reported before jet carrying Libya army chief crashed near Ankara

Libya’s army chief of staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed Al-Haddad, was killed on Tuesday when a private jet carrying him and members of his entourage crashed near Ankara shortly after departing Turkey’s capital, Libyan and Turkish officials said.

The Dassault Falcon 50 jet took off from Ankara’s Esenboga Airport at around 1710–1717 GMT en route to Tripoli after Al-Haddad concluded an official visit to Turkey. Shortly after takeoff, the aircraft reported an emergency caused by an electrical malfunction and requested an emergency landing...