A military aircraft carrying Malawi\u2019s vice president Saulos Chilima has been reported missing after it failed to make a landing Monday morning, the government said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll efforts by aviation authorities to make contact with the aircraft since it went off the radar have failed thus far,\u201d the government said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The plane, which took off just after 9:00 am local time (0700 GMT), was carrying 51-year-old Chilima and nine others.<\/p>\n
President Lazarus Chakwera has ordered regional and national forces to conduct an \u201cimmediate search and rescue operation to locate the whereabouts of the aircraft\u201d, the statement said.<\/p>\n
Chakwera, who was due to travel to the Bahamas for a working visit, has since cancelled his trip.<\/p>\n
In 2022, Chilima was stripped of his powers when he was arrested and charged with graft over a bribery scandal involving a British-Malawian businessman.<\/p>\n
Last month, a Malawian court dropped the charges after Chilima attended several court appearances.<\/p>\n
A military aircraft carrying Malawi\u2019s vice president Saulos Chilima has been reported missing after it failed to make a landing Monday morning, the government said. \u201cAll efforts by aviation authorities…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n