Search Continues for Missing Aircraft Carrying Malawi’s Vice President

Search and rescue operations will persist until the missing aircraft carrying Malawi’s Vice President, Saulos Klaus Chilima, is located, President Lazarus Chakwera announced late Monday. Reuters reports that, the 51 year old Chilima, was on a military aircraft with nine others that departed from Lilongwe at 09:17 a.m. local time. Efforts to contact the aircraft have failed since it went off the radar, and it was scheduled to land at Mzuzu Airport at 10:02 a.m.