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A flight attendant who was part of the crew that brought a Libyan jet to Türkiye before it crashed near Ankara has been taken into custody as part of the ongoing investigation, Turkish authorities said.
Following efforts by Türkiye's National Intelligence Organization (MIT) and on the instructions of the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, the flight attendant was detained at her hotel and transferred to the Ankara Police Department.
Turkish media outlet T24's Tolga Sardan reported that no “tangible” information emerged during the initial phase of her interrogation. Authorities are continuing to examine her contacts and connections as part of the broader probe.
The Falcon 50 jet was carrying Mohammed al-Haddad, Libya’s chief of general staff, and four aides when it crashed shortly after takeoff near Ankara following a visit to the Turkish capital.
Turkish officials have said an electrical failure caused the aircraft to go down. All five members of the Libyan military delegation were killed, along with three crew members, two of whom were French nationals.
Investigators recovered the aircraft’s black box flight recorder from farmland near the crash site. Türkiye’s Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said last week that both the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder were damaged and would be sent abroad for analysis.
“There are only four countries in the world capable of retrieving data from such damaged equipment,” Uraloglu told reporters in Ankara.
He said the analysis will be conducted in the United Kingdom with the participation of representatives from Libya and the aircraft’s manufacturer.
“They will closely follow the process. But it will probably take a month, maybe even longer,” he said, confirming that both devices would be examined.
The jet crashed near Ankara’s Haymana district on Dec. 23, 2025, shortly after takeoff, killing all those on board.
Authorities have not indicated when preliminary findings from the black box analysis are expected to be released.
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