Aya Betraoui

The Tripoli-based Libyan government says the military's chief of staff, Lieutenant General Mohamed El Haddad, as well as two other top generals, an advisor and a military photographer, were killed in the plane crash.

They'd been in Turkey for defense talks.

Libya has two rival governments, with Turkey backing the government based in Tripoli.

Turkey's interior minister says the private plane took off for Tripoli from Ankara just after 8 p.m.

local time Tuesday.

Turkish officials wrote on X the plane had requested an emergency landing after electrical faults and that contact was lost around 40 minutes after takeoff.

The Turkish interior minister says the plane's black box and cockpit voice recorder were recovered Wednesday with an investigation ongoing alongside Libyan authorities.