Malawian VP feared killed in plane crash

Admin I Monday, June 10, 2024

 

MALAWI – The Vice President of Malawi Mr. Saulos Chilima is feared to have died in a plane crash.

Aljazeera reported that  the military plane conveying the Vice President ran into a bad weather and was in the process of returning to base when it vanished from the radar.

Already, there is anxiety over the whereabouts of the Vice President as frantic efforts are underway to search for the missing plane.

“All efforts by aviation authorities to make contact with the aircraft since it went off the radar have failed thus far,” the government said in a statement.

The plane, which took off just after 9:00 am local time (0700 GMT), was carrying 51-year-old Chilima and nine others.

President Lazarus Chakwera has ordered regional and national forces to conduct an “immediate search and rescue operation to locate the whereabouts of the aircraft”, the statement said.