Tomorrow Turkey Holds Military Funeral for 5 Libyan Officers Killed in Plane Crash

JAKARTA - Turkey is scheduled to hold a military funeral tomorrow Sunday, December 28 morning for five Libyan officers who were victims of a private jet crash in the Haymana district near Ankara on Tuesday, December 23.

Citing AP, the private jet was carrying General Muhammad Ali Ahmad Al-Haddad as the head of the Libyan armed forces and four other military officers, as well as three crew members.

The ceremony is planned to be held at 8.00 am local time at Murted Air Base, near Ankara, and will be attended by the Turkish Chief of the Army and the Minister of Defense.

The five coffins wrapped in the national flag were then loaded onto a plane to be returned to Libya.

The body of the victim of the private jet accident was placed at the Ankara Forensic Medicine Institute after it was previously identified.

Turkish Minister of Justice Yilmaz Tunc had asked Germany to become a third-party country to examine the aircraft's black box after it was found to uphold the transparency of the investigation.

According to Libyan officials, the cause of the accident was a technical malfunction of the aircraft.