Malawi Vice President’s Plane Goes Missing
By Mwangi Maina
| June 10, 2024
Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera has ordered regional and national agencies to conduct an immediate search and rescue operation to locate the aircraft that went missing carrying the country’s Vice President .
An aircraft carrying Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima and nine others has gone missing, Malawi’s presidency said on Monday.
“All efforts by aviation authorities to make contact with the Aircraft since it went off the radar have failed thus far,” Malawi’s Office of the President and Cabinet said in a statement.
Chilima, 51, was aboard a Malawi Defence Force aircraft that left the capital Lilongwe at 0917 local time, the statement said, adding that search and rescue operations were ongoing.
President Lazarus Chakwera has ordered regional and national agencies to conduct an immediate search and rescue operation to locate the aircraft.
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