What happened?
Black Boxes Recovered From Jet Crash That Killed Libya’s Army Chief
Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya told reporters that the aircraft’s voice recorder was located at 2:45 a.m., followed by the black box at 3:20 a.m., after an overnight search of the crash site. Analysis of the devices has begun.
Turkish authorities recovered the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder early Wednesday from the wreckage of a private jet that crashed near Ankara, killing Libya’s army chief and others on board, officials said.
Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya told reporters that the aircraft’s voice recorder was located at 2:45 a.m., followed by the black box at 3:20 a.m., after an overnight search of the crash site. Analysis of the devices has begun.
The wreckage of the Falcon 50 business jet was scattered across an area of roughly three square kilometers in the Haymana district, south of Ankara. Yerlikaya said 408 personnel were deployed in the search operation, supported by more than 100 ground vehicles and seven aircraft.
The jet had departed Ankara’s Esenboga Airport on Tuesday and was en route to Tripoli when it went down. Gendarmerie teams located the crash site about two kilometers south of the village of Kesikkavak.
A 22-member delegation from Libya, including family members of the victims and officials from the defense and interior ministries, arrived in Ankara on Wednesday.
Libya’s Government of National Unity declared three days of national mourning following the crash. Turkish authorities said the cause of the accident would be determined once the recovered data is fully examined.