Plane Carrying Vice President of Malawi Goes Missing, Plane Has Gone Off Radar

A plane carrying Malawi’s vice president and nine went missing on Monday morning.

The military plane carrying Malawi Vice President Saulos Chilima took off from Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, at 9:17 a.m. on Monday but failed to land at its designated designation.

ABC News reported that the flight was scheduled only for 45 minutes, but Chilima’s plane had been missing for several hours.

Malawi authorities have reported the plane has gone “off the radar,” and a search operation has commenced.

Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera’s office released a statement that read, “All efforts to make contact with the aircraft since it went off radar have failed thus far,”

DEVELOPING: More than 7 hours after it should have landed,

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