An aircraft carrying Malawi’s Vice President, Saulos Klaus Chilima and nine others went missing on Monday.
Chilima was aboard a Malawi Defence Force aircraft that left the capital, Lilongwe, at 09h17 local time.
Colleen Zamba, President Lazarus Chakwera’s secretary, made this announcement in an official statement.
Zamba said the Malawi Defence Force aircraft failed to make a scheduled landing at Mzuzu International Airport in Lilongwe.
“All efforts by aviation authorities to make contact with the aircraft since it went off the radar have failed thus far,” he said.
The aircraft was scheduled to land at Mzuzu International Airport at 10h02.
Zamba added that the Malawian president has since ordered all regional and national agencies to conduct an immediate search and rescue operation to locate the whereabouts of the aircraft.
