Plane taking off from Tripoli lands in Cairo, carrying the Libyan deputy defence minister.
Aljazeera, 09 Mar 2011
Three of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's private planes have taken off from a military airstrip near Tripoli.
One of them has landed in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, carrying on board Abdelrahman al-Zawi, the Libyan deputy defence minister, who is also an army general in charge of logistics and supplies.
There were reports that he was to meet with Amr Moussa, head of the Arab league.
meanwhile, the state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper said the official was to meet with the military council which is ruling Egypt.
Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin, in Cairo, said the private jet landed on a military airstrip around 1pm on Wednesday.
"As soon as the plane landed, those on board, according to eye witnesses two individuals including one who appeared to be a senior military official, were immediately whisked away by private cars," he said.
Karl Stango-Navarra, a journalist based in Valletta, Malta, told Al Jazeera that the two other planes were being monitored by NATO and that one had been spotted in Swiss airspace and one over Italy.
The plane landing in Cairo crossed into Greek airspace en route to Egypt and a Greek air force source said the plane was a Libyan Airlines Falcon 900 that normally carries VIP.
The Arab league is due to meet on Saturday to discuss the possibility of imposing a no-fly zone over Libya. Libyan delegates have been barred from attending the League's meetings addressing the situation in the country.
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