The military spokesman for the Libyan National Army, led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, Major General Ahmed Al-Mismari, announced that the Air Force General Command shot down a Turkish plane on Wednesday evening.

Al-Mismari said in a brief military statement that "the plane took off from the Maitika Air Force Base north of the capital, Tripoli, and was trying to raid the site of the army's military units in Tripoli."