Aircraft Carrying Malawi Vice President Saulos Chilima, 9 Others Goes Missing

A plane carrying Malawi Vice President Saulos Chilima and nine others has gone missing.

In a press release, Collen Zamba, the Secretary to president Lazarus Chakwera said the Malawi Defence Force aircraft failed to make a scheduled landing at Mzuzu International Airport in Lilongwe.

“All efforts by aviation authorities to make contact with the Aircraft since it went off the radar have failed thus far,” reads the release in part.

President Chakwera has since ordered all regional and national agencies to conduct an immediate search and rescue operation to locate the whereabouts of the aircraft.

By the time of going to press the aircraft which was expected to make a landing some minutes after ten o’clock in the morning has gone missing for 8 hours.

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—SMG