A subject level carying Malawi's vice president Saulos Chilima has gone 'off the radar' aft taking disconnected this morning, the country's authorities has revealed.
The plane, which was carrying 9 different people, failed to onshore aft taking disconnected from the country's superior city, Lilongwe, astatine astir 9am section clip (7am BST) this morning.
Other passengers connected the flight, which was expected to onshore astatine Mzuzu International Airport successful the country’s northbound conscionable aft 11am BST, included the vice president's wife, Mary, and respective officials from his party, the United Transformation Movement.
They were travelling to correspond the authorities astatine the ceremonial of a erstwhile furniture minister, Ralph Kasambara, who died conscionable 3 days ago.
'All efforts by aviation authorities to marque interaction with the craft since it went disconnected the radar person failed frankincense far,' the authorities said successful a statement.
A subject level carying Malawi's vice president Saulos Chilima (pictured) has gone 'off the radar' aft taking disconnected this morning
It is inactive not known erstwhile oregon wherefore the level went down.
The nation's president Lazarus Chakwera has ordered determination and nationalist forces to behaviour an 'immediate hunt and rescue cognition to find the whereabouts of the aircraft', the connection added.
Chakwera, who was owed to question to the Bahamas for a moving visit, has since cancelled his trip.
He added that the 'public volition beryllium updated of immoderate developments connected the concern arsenic facts are established.'
In 2022, Chilima was stripped of his vice-presidential powers erstwhile helium was arrested and charged with graft implicit a $150million bribery ungraded involving a British-Malawian businessman.
Last month, a Malawian tribunal dropped the charges aft Chilima attended respective tribunal appearances.
More to follow.
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