A navy aircraft carrying Malawi’s Vice President has did not land and has been reported lacking

Lilongwe –

A navy aircraft carrying the Vice President Malawi, Saulos Chilima, lacking after failing to land. The Malawian authorities says that analysis efforts are at the moment underway.

“All makes an attempt by aviation authorities to contact the plane because it disappeared from radar have to this point failed,” the federal government stated in a press release, as reported by AFP, on Monday (10/6/2024 ).

The aircraft took off round 09.00 native time. Vice President Chilima and 9 others have been on the aircraft.

The federal government assertion stated President Lazarus Chakwera had ordered regional and nationwide forces to “instantly perform search and rescue operations to find the aircraft”.

President Chakwera, who was scheduled to journey to the Bahamas for a working go to, has now canceled his journey.

In 2022, Chilima was faraway from energy when he was arrested and charged with corruption as a result of a corruption scandal involving a British-Malawian businessman.

Final month, a Malawian court docket dismissed the costs after Chilima attended a number of hearings.

(lir/idn)