{"id":217963,"date":"2025-12-24T14:49:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libyas-military-chief-dies-in-plane-crash-in-turkey\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T14:49:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:49:49","slug":"libyas-military-chief-dies-in-plane-crash-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libyas-military-chief-dies-in-plane-crash-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya&#8217;s Military Chief Dies in Plane Crash in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em>Libya&#8217;s military chief was returning home after attending meetings in Turkey. Seven other people were on board.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/libya\/t-19016309\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Libyan<\/a>\u00a0Prime Minister Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah on Tuesday confirmed the death of Libyan military chief Muhammad Ali Ahmad al-Haddad in a plane crash in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/turkey\/t-65619354\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Turkey<\/a>&#8216;s interior minister said earlier that air traffic controllers\u00a0lost contact with a\u00a0Dassault Falcon 50-type\u00a0jet carrying the Libyan\u00a0military chief and others home after a visit to Turkey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The plane departed from\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/ankara\/t-19122227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ankara<\/a>&#8216;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512240112.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libya&#8217;s military chief was returning home after attending meetings in Turkey. Seven other people were on board. Libyan\u00a0Prime Minister Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah on Tuesday confirmed the death of Libyan military chief Muhammad Ali Ahmad al-Haddad in a plane crash in Turkey. Turkey&#8216;s interior minister said earlier that air traffic controllers\u00a0lost contact with a\u00a0Dassault Falcon 50-type\u00a0jet carrying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":217964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00421638:50c07762df5ba1b190aedbf63e58323f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,6510,7750,6868,892,6649,3318,257,7749,254,4772],"class_list":["post-217963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chief","tag-crash","tag-dies","tag-libya-news","tag-libyas","tag-military","tag-news","tag-plane","tag-south-africa-today","tag-turkey"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00421638:50c07762df5ba1b190aedbf63e58323f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}