Haymana Mayor at the plane crash site: The scene we see is not encouraging
Haymana Mayor Levent Koç, who is at the crash site of the plane carrying the Libyan delegation, stated, "The scene we see is unfortunately not very encouraging. When we arrived at the scene, we saw that the plane wreckage was scattered over a very wide area, a very wide geography."
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Chief of General Staff General Selçuk Bayraktaroğlu's guest today (December 23)visiting Turkey, the private jet carryingLibyan Chief of General Staff General Mohamed Ali Al-Haddad and his delegation,which was traveling from Ankara to Tripoli, crashed in the evening.in the evening hours, 19 minutes after taking off from Ankara Esenboğa Airport, it crashed in the village of Kesikkavak in the Haymana districtcrashed.Including Haddad, 8 people on boardlost their lives.
Haymana Mayor Levent Koç, regarding the plane's crashscattered area in a statement made in Kesikkavak, near the site, he said that after the loud noise heard from the center of Haymana around 20:45, they went on alert and immediately mobilized.was openedhe stated.
Explaining that the terrain conditions were very challengingand that theregion had been receivingprecipitation for three days, Koçadded, stated the following:
"The plane crashed into a rural area, and itwas identified. We also went to the scene byswitching between 3 vehicles. We encounteredplane parts scattered over a verywide area.Search and rescue teams are here. Haymana Municipality and MetropolitanMunicipalityteams are here. Our hope is that, rescue effortswill reach a conclusion and a citizen will be found to be rescued. That is, of course, our hope. But as we said, when we went to the scene, we clearlysaw that the plane partswere spread over a verywide area, a veryvast geography.we saw."
Regarding the question about whether there is any information on "loss of life," Koç said, "Let us not share that. Of course, there werethings we saw,but our colleagues will surely share that in the coming hours.It is necessaryto proceed based on definite data. But as I said,as I said, the scene we see is unfortunately not very encouraging," he replied.
At the scene, the Ankara Metropolitan and Haymana Municipalities, along with AFAD and Gendarmerie Search and Rescue teams, continuingthe effortsto carry outthework, Koç stated, "Our hope is thata survivor will be found," he said.
Theairthe cause of the crashiscurrentlyunknown,Koç said, adding thatthere is no informationyet,and that the weatherof three days of foggy and rainyweather, but emphasized that thereis no mountainousterrain in the district.