Black Box reveals engine failure behind the plane crash which killed Libyan army officers in Turkey
The recent Black Box Analysis Details Engine Failures in Fatal Aircraft Crash which killed the Libyan army officer.
The Turkey Minister of Transport, Abdulkadir Oglu has announced the completion of the examination of the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from the ill-fated Libyan aircraft.
This is the plane that crashed in Turkey in December 2025, killing the Chief of Staff of the Libyan army under Western region government Lieutenant General Mohamed Al Haddad.
The crash also killed members of the delegation which was accompanying Lieutenant General Mohamed Al Haddad on board during the December 2025 trip.
According to the Turkish minister, the recordings showed that the aircraft’s second engine failed about two minutes after takeoff.
The incident was followed shortly by the failure of the aircraft’s third engine.
Soon after, all three engines stopped working, leading to the fatal airplane crash.
Preliminary assessments suggest that the accident might have been avoided if the flight crew had requested an immediate return to the airport after the first or second engine failed.
However, the pilots and the crew insisted on continuing the flight, resulting to the accident.
“We have mostly clarified what happened,” Minister Oglu said, adding that the final decision on responsibility will be made after the judicial investigation and detailed expert reports regarding the crash get completed.
The Turkish Minister also confirmed that the second black box, the flight data recorder, is old and severely damaged, and has so far provided no usable data yet.
Libya’s army chief of staff Mohammed Ali Ahmed Al-Haddad was killed in a plane crash after departing Turkey’s capital Ankara.
Four other persons were also on board the aircraft, including the commander of Libya’s ground forces, the head of the military manufacturing authority, an adviser to the chief of staff, and a photographer from his office.
The Falcon 50 jet was flying from Ankara to Tripoli and lost contact with Turkish air traffic control shortly after taking off, prompting an emergency search and rescue operation.
The Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said communication with the aircraft was lost at 20:52, on the 23rd of December, 2025, after an emergency landing alert was received near Haymana, south of Ankara.