Harmony Jets Flight 185
Dassault Falcon 50 · Crashed shortly after takeoff; under investigation
From Esenboğa International Airport (ESB) to Mitiga International Airport (MJI)
Event
- NTSB case
- GAA26WA060
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- Event fatalities
- 8 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 8
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 0 serious · 0 minor (NTSB)
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Dassault Falcon 50
- Flight
- HMJ185
- Aircraft type
- Dassault Falcon 50
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- 9H-DFS
- Operator
- Harmony Jets
- Onboard fatalities
- 8
- Route
- From Esenboğa International Airport (ESB)To Mitiga International Airport (MJI)
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Non-U.S., Non-Commercial
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Unknown
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Unknown or undetermined
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
Harmony Jets Flight 185 was a charter flight from Ankara Esenboğa Airport, Turkey to Mitiga International Airport, Tripoli, Libya. On 23 December 2025, the aircraft operating the flight, a Dassault Falcon 50, crashed shortly after takeoff. The aircraft was carrying the Libyan Army chief Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, three crew members, and four other passengers. All passengers and crew were killed.
Crash
The aircraft took off from Ankara Esenboğa Airport in Ankara at 17:17 GMT, en route to Mitiga International Airport in Tripoli, Libya. At 17:32, it stopped climbing at 32,475 ft. A minute later, the transponder code was changed to squawk 7700 (emergency) and the crew informed air traffic control (ATC) of an electrical malfunction. The crew requested an emergency landing and were redirected back to Esenboğa Airport where preparations for a landing began. Three minutes after, the aircraft began descending before losing contact with ATC at 17:41 near the village of Babayakup, approximately 2 km south of Haymana. A possible explosion was caught on security camera footage. Authorities discovered wreckage near the village of Kesikkavak in Haymana district. The crash site covered approximately 3 km2.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
Turkish officials ruled out sabotage and said the initial cause was a technical failure after the pilot notified ATC that there was an electrical fault. Libya sent a team of 22 people, including five relatives of the victims, to Ankara to work with Turkish authorities on investigating the crash. They arrived the following day. Both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder were found.
The Turkish Ministry of Justice assigned four prosecutors to investigate the crash. Transportation Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu said that the flight recordings would be investigated by a "neutral third country". On 26 December, it was announced that the black box would be sent to Germany; Germany later declined to conduct the investigation, and the United Kingdom was chosen instead. The French Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety also said it would participate in the investigation.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: Harmony Jets Flight 185
- Article
- Harmony Jets Flight 185
- Revision
- 1368079124 · 2026-08-06 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q137560457
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record GAA26WA060
- Event ID
- 20251231202229
- Case number
- GAA26WA060
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "Harmony Jets Flight 185" (page 81917460, revision 1368079124); merged with NTSB case GAA26WA060 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record GAA26WA060
- Operation
- airline flight number in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (2)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "Harmony Jets Flight 185" and NTSB case GAA26WA060, matched by the same aircraft registration and date. For this event outside the United States Wikipedia's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.