Debaiba said that this incident was a heavy loss for the Libyan state and military.

Turkish Interior Minister Yerlikaya posted on social media that Turkish gendarmerie found the wreckage of the plane near a village in the Khaymana District of Ankara Province. Later, an official of the Turkish National Unity government told the media in an interview that the Turkish side informed the Turkish side that the remains of the victims had been found.

Yerlikaya said in a statement earlier that at 8:10 p.m. local time (1:10 a.m. on the 24th Singapore time), Hadad and five others took off from Ankara Essen Boa International Airport on a Falcon-50 business jet bound for Tripoli, the capital of Libya. The plane lost contact at 8:52.

The statement said that the plane had requested an emergency landing at one point, but then failed to re-establish communication with the ground. Footage broadcast by several Turkish media outlets showed an explosion near the location where the signal was sent before the plane crash.

Turkish Justice Minister Tonchi said that the office of the chief Prosecutor of Ankara has launched an investigation into the air crash. An official from the Government of National Unity of Libya said that the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Civil Aviation of the country will send a delegation, which is expected to arrive in Ankara on the 24th, to follow up on relevant legal procedures.

The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced earlier this week that Haddad visited Ankara and met with Turkish military leaders.

Since the Gaddafi regime was overthrown in 2011, Libya has been in turmoil. At present, the United National-recognized government of Libya and the armed forces that support it control parts of the west, while the National Assembly has formed an alliance with the "National Army" and controls most of the eastern and southern parts of Libya. The two sides are in a state of separatism and confrontation.