{"id":22526422,"date":"2026-09-15T14:20:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/cessna-citation-latitude-tc-akf-misrata-libya-fire-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T14:21:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:21:02","slug":"cessna-citation-latitude-tc-akf-misrata-libya-fire-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/cessna-citation-latitude-tc-akf-misrata-libya-fire-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Citation Latitude TC-AKF: A Nearly New Jet Burns at Misrata"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n\r\n<p>The aeroplane was a few months old. It was empty except for the three people flying it, on a short hop across the Mediterranean to collect passengers in Libya. It was a routine positioning flight, the kind that happens a thousand times a morning across the business aviation world.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Shortly after the wheels touched down at Misrata, the aircraft was off the pavement and burning.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>All three got out.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:17px;color:#222\">Quick Facts<\/p><table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\"><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Aircraft<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">Cessna 680A Citation Latitude, registration TC-AKF, built 2026<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Date<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">Monday 14 September 2026, morning<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Flight<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">BKI60, Istanbul Ataturk (LTBA) to Misrata International (HLMS), empty positioning leg<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>On board<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">Three Turkish crew: pilot, co-pilot and flight attendant. All survived<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Outcome<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">Aircraft destroyed by fire; airport closed, due to reopen the same evening<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Owner<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">Akfen Holding, operated by BKNJET Aviation Co (BKN Jet)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Cause<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">Not established. Published accounts conflict<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Intended passengers<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">Three Libyan political figures, due to fly to Turkey<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Nobody agrees on what actually happened<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>This is the honest state of the story a day later, and it is worth setting out plainly rather than picking the version that reads best.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The Aviation Safety Network logs the event as a runway excursion of the veer-off type: the aircraft departed the paved surface to the left roughly 1,400 metres past the threshold of runway 15, was steered back toward the runway, crossed the shoulder about 500 metres further on, and the landing gear collapsed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Libya Herald, reporting from Tripoli, describes something different: an overrun during an attempted emergency landing. It also records two early and explicitly unconfirmed claims circulating locally, that the aircraft had an engine problem, and that it landed from the wrong direction.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Those are not small differences. A veer-off is a loss of directional control during the landing roll. An overrun is running out of runway ahead of you. An emergency landing implies something had already gone wrong before the aeroplane ever touched the ground, which would make the excursion a consequence rather than the event itself. Until somebody with access to the wreckage and the recorders says otherwise, all three descriptions are in play.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"max-width:550px;margin:0 auto 28px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?id=2099466167848939613&theme=light\" style=\"width:100%;height:520px;border:none;overflow:hidden\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The part that went right<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Three people were on board: the pilot, the co-pilot and a flight attendant, all Turkish nationals. There were no passengers, because the whole purpose of the flight was to go and get them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Airport fire and rescue reached the aircraft, put the fire out, and got all three clear. Libya&rsquo;s Tripoli Transport Ministry said afterwards that the crew had been treated and that the information available indicated they were in good health.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;The crew members received treatment, and available information indicates that their health condition is good.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Tripoli Transport Ministry<\/strong> &mdash; Statement on the accident, as reported by Libya Herald, 14 September 2026<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Business jet fires are not forgiving. A Citation Latitude carries its fuel in the wings, immediately outboard of a cabin with one main door on the left and an overwing emergency exit on the right. When the gear collapses and a wing touches the ground, the margin between an evacuation and a fatal accident is measured in seconds and in how fast somebody gets a door open.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/cessna-680a-citation-latitude-business-jet.jpg\" alt=\"A Cessna 680A Citation Latitude business jet\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A Citation Latitude of the same type as TC-AKF. This is not the accident aircraft. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A nearly new aeroplane, and who it was waiting for<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>TC-AKF was a 2026 airframe, a jet still inside its first heavy-maintenance cycle with an engine programme barely started. Akfen Holding has confirmed the aircraft belongs to the group and is operated by BKNJET Aviation Co, the Istanbul charter company generally known as BKN Jet.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The detail that has travelled furthest is the owner. Turkish media identified him as Hamdi Akin, whom Forbes places among the ten wealthiest people in Turkiye. It is also the least useful fact in the file. An aircraft does not care who holds the title.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>More interesting is who the jet was going to Misrata to collect. Libya Herald reports it was due to fly three Libyan political figures to Turkey, among them Mohamed Zoubi, brother of the Tripoli-based Undersecretary of Defence Abdelsalam Zoubi. None of them had boarded. In a country where charter aviation is substantially about moving officials in and out, that is context rather than coincidence.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The flight originated at Istanbul Ataturk, an airport most people assume closed years ago. It did close to scheduled airline traffic when Istanbul Airport opened in 2019, but it remains busy with business and general aviation, which is why a charter positioning flight was leaving it at a quarter to six in the morning.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/cessna-citation-latitude-midsize-jet-ramp.jpg\" alt=\"A Cessna Citation Latitude on the ramp\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The Latitude is a midsize jet with a flat-floor stand-up cabin, powered by two Pratt &amp; Whitney Canada PW306D turbofans. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Two runway accidents in eight days<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>This is the second destructive runway accident to make international news in just over a week. On 6 September a Boeing 767 operated by 21 Air for Amazon left the end of a runway at Miami International and killed five people on the road beyond it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Mechanically the two have little in common, and the human outcomes could hardly be further apart. What they share is the reminder that the landing roll is not the part of the flight where the risk ends. Runway excursions remain the most common category of accident in commercial aviation, and they are overwhelmingly survivable, right up until they are not.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Misrata got the survivable version, and the airport was back open by ten that night.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>What happened to the Citation Latitude at Misrata Airport?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">On the morning of 14 September 2026 a Cessna 680A Citation Latitude, registration TC-AKF, came to grief while landing at Misrata International Airport in Libya and caught fire. All three crew on board escaped and were treated; Libya&rsquo;s Tripoli Transport Ministry said their condition was good. The aircraft, a 2026 airframe, was destroyed.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What caused the crash?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Nobody knows yet, and the published accounts do not agree. The Aviation Safety Network classifies it as a runway excursion of the veer-off type. Libya Herald reported it as an overrun during an attempted emergency landing, and noted early unconfirmed claims of an engine problem and of a landing made from the wrong direction. None of these has been confirmed by an investigation.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Who was on board?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Three Turkish crew: the pilot, the co-pilot and a flight attendant. There were no passengers, because the aircraft was flying an empty positioning leg from Istanbul to collect people in Libya.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Who was the aircraft going to pick up?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Libya Herald reported that the jet was due to carry three Libyan political figures to Turkey, among them Mohamed Zoubi, brother of the Tripoli-based Undersecretary of Defence Abdelsalam Zoubi. None of them had boarded when the accident happened.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Who owns and operates TC-AKF?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Akfen Holding confirmed that the aircraft belongs to the conglomerate and is operated by BKNJET Aviation Co, the Istanbul-based charter company also known as BKN Jet or Bikini Jet. Turkish media identified the group&rsquo;s founder, businessman Hamdi Akin, as the owner; Forbes places him among the ten wealthiest people in Turkiye.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What is a Cessna Citation Latitude?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Citation Latitude, designated Cessna 680A, is a midsize business jet built by Textron Aviation with a flat-floor stand-up cabin and typical seating for up to nine passengers. It is powered by two Pratt &amp; Whitney Canada PW306D turbofans and entered service in 2015.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Did Misrata Airport reopen?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes. Flights were suspended while emergency crews dealt with the fire and cleared the runway, and Libya Herald reported the airport was due to resume operations at 22:00 local time the same day.<\/div><\/details><\/div><\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What happened to the Citation Latitude at Misrata Airport?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"On the morning of 14 September 2026 a Cessna 680A Citation Latitude, registration TC-AKF, came to grief while landing at Misrata International Airport in Libya and caught fire. All three crew on board escaped and were treated; Libya\u2019s Tripoli Transport Ministry said their condition was good. 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