A military plane carrying Malawi’s vice president and nine others has gone missing, the president’s office has said.
However, a search is under way.
Vice President Saulos Chilima, 51, reportedly left the capital, Lilongwe, in the aircraft on Monday but failed to make its scheduled landing at Mzuzu International Airport, which is about 370km (230 miles) to the north around 45 minutes later.
A statement from the office of Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera revealed Aviation authorities lost contact with the plane when it “went off radar”.
“All efforts to make contact with the aircraft since it went off radar have failed thus far.”
It was gathered that the President ordered local and national authorities to “conduct an immediate search and rescue operation to locate the whereabouts of the aircraft”.
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