Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima and 9 different folks have been killed in a aircraft crash, President Lazarus Chakwera confirmed Tuesday.
The navy plane carrying Chilima, who was seen as a possible candidate in subsequent 12 months’s presidential election, went lacking Monday.
“I’m deeply saddened, I’m sorry to inform you all that it has turned out to be a terrible tragedy. The search and rescue team has found the aircraft near a hill. They have found it completely destroyed with no survivors,” Chakwera mentioned in an handle to the nation.
The aircraft left the capital Lilongwe at 09:17 a.m. (07:17 a.m. GMT) Monday however was unable to land at Mzuzu airport as scheduled at 10:02 a.m. resulting from poor visibility.
It was ordered to return to Lilongwe however went off the radar and aviation authorities misplaced contact with it.
Chakwera mentioned all passengers on board have been killed on impression and that the navy was bringing their stays again to the capital.
“Despite the track record of the aircraft and the experience of the crew, something terrible went wrong with that aircraft on its flight back to Lilongwe, sending it crashing down and leaving us all devastated,” he mentioned.
Chilima, 51, was arrested in 2022 over graft allegations. However, a court docket dropped the costs in opposition to him final month after the director of public prosecutions filed a discover for the case to be discontinued. Chilima denied wrongdoing.
Source: www.dailysabah.com