There is breaking news and it is that a military aircraft carrying vice president has been reported missing, raising anxiety within the populace.
The plane carrying vice president Saulos Chilima of Malawi reportedly got missing after it failed to make a landing Monday morning, the government said.
“All efforts by aviation authorities to make contact with the aircraft since it went off the radar have failed thus far,” the government said in a statement.
The plane, took off just after 9:00 am local time (0700 GMT), carrying 51-year-old Chilima and nine others.
President Lazarus Chakwera has ordered regional and national forces to conduct an “immediate search and rescue operation to locate the whereabouts of the aircraft”, the statement said.
