{"id":289,"date":"2025-12-24T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/?p=289"},"modified":"2026-02-02T12:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:49:19","slug":"in-wake-of-fatal-plane-crash-libyas-embassy-in-ankara-flies-flags-at-half-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/24\/in-wake-of-fatal-plane-crash-libyas-embassy-in-ankara-flies-flags-at-half-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"In wake of fatal plane crash, Libya\u2019s Embassy in Ankara flies flags at half-staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">After Libya\u2019s army chief Mohamed Ali Al-Haddad and his delegation died in plane crash in Ankara province, Libya declared 3 days of mourning and lowered its embassy flag to half-staff <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<p>By Sercan Irkin and Seda Sevencan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ISTANBUL (AA) \u2013 Libya\u2019s Embassy in the Turkish capital Ankara lowered its flags to half-staff on Wednesday following a plane crash that killed Libyan Chief of Gen. Staff General Mohamed Ali Al-Haddad, along with four members of his delegation and three crew members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Libya declared three days of national mourning after the Falcon 50-type business jet crashed after taking off from Ankara\u2019s Esenboga Airport en route to Tripoli, the Libyan capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plane was found about 2 kilometers (1.24 miles) south of Kesikkavak in Ankara\u2019s Haymana district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Search operations continued through the night despite heavy rain and fog, and officials are monitoring efforts from a mobile coordination center set up by T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s Disaster and Emergency Management Agency (AFAD). &#8211; Anadulo Agency<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hidnetwork.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AA-20251224-40065319-40065318-DASSAULT_FALCON_50_BUSINESS_JET_WITH_TAIL_NUMBER_9HDFS-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-327\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>After Libya\u2019s army chief Mohamed Ali Al-Haddad and his delegation died in plane crash in Ankara province, Libya declared 3 days of mourning and lowered its embassy flag to half-staff<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}