A plane carrying Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Chilima and nine other people has gone missing after it failed to make a scheduled landing on Monday, according to the presidential office.
The Malawi Defense Force Aircraft carrying Chilima and others left the capital of Lilongwe at 9:17 a.m. local time , the presidential office and cabinet said in a statement. The plane had been scheduled to land at the Mzuzu International Airport, about 380 km to the north of Lilongwe, but did not arrive and is no longer detectable by radar, according to authorities.
Soon after, authorities lost contact with the aircraft, prompting a search and rescue operation, Chakwera said during the live broadcast on state TV channel MBC. Signals from telecommunications towers reported the plane’s last known position to a 10-kilometre radius in a forest reserve, which has since become the area of focus for the search and rescue operation, Chakwera said. Search and rescue operations “will continue until the plane is found,” he added.
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