Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera said Tuesday that the plane carrying Vice President Saulos Chilima and nine others has been found.
However, no one survived.
“The plane has been found and I am deeply saddened and sorry to inform you all, it has turned out to be a terrible tragedy,” he said, in a televised address.
The group departed just after 9:00 am (0700 GMT) from Lilongwe on Monday to attend the funeral of a former cabinet minister some 370 kilometres (230 miles) away in Mzuzu.
Former first lady Shanil Dzimbiri was also on board.
Described as charismatic yet stern-talking, he was first elected vice president in 2014, and seems popular among the youths of Malawi.
Yesterday, a statement from the office of Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera revealed Aviation authorities lost contact with the plane when it “went off radar”.
The military plane disappeared on Monday after it failed to land in the northern city of Mzuzu due to poor visibility and was told to return to the capital, Lilongwe.
In April, Kenya’s military chief, Gen Francis Omondi Ogolla, died after a military helicopter crashed in the west of the country,
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