An aircraft carrying Malawi’s Vice-President, Saulos Chilima and nine others has gone missing yesterday, Monday, 10 June a statement from the presidential office has announced.
“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.
The statement said President Lazarus Chakwera had ordered a search and rescue operation after aviation officials could not contact the aircraft. The government said the aircraft was supposed to have landed at the Mzuzu International Airport, in the country’s north, just after 10:00 local time (11:00 BST).
