Malawi's Vice President Saulos Chilima has been killed in a plane crash along with nine other passengers, the country's President Lazarus Chakwera announced Tuesday.
Niamh Kennedy, CNNMalawi's Vice President Saulos Chilima has been killed in a plane crash along with nine other passengers, the country's president announced Tuesday.
"The search and rescue operation I ordered to find the missing plane that carried our vice president and nine others has been completed. The plane has been found. And I am deeply saddened and sorry to inform you that it has turned out to be a terrible tragedy," Chakwera said. Air traffic controllers told the plane not to attempt a landing at Mzuzu's airport because of bad weather and poor visibility and asked it to turn back to Lilongwe, Chakwera said. Air traffic control then lost contact with the aircraft and it disappeared from radar, he said.
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