Military Plane Carrying Malawi’s Vice President Has Gone Missing and Search Is Underway

Lazarus Chakwera (2nd-L), the president for Malawis main opposition Party, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP), and his election running mate, Saulos Klaus Chilima (R), Malawis incumbent Vice President and president for the United Transformation Movement (UTM), leave the Mount Soche Hotel in Blantyre on May 6, 2020. Amos Gumulira/AFP via Getty Images

BLANTYRE, Malawi—A military plane carrying Malawi’s vice president and nine others went missing Monday and a search was underway, the president’s office said.

The plane carrying 51-year-old Vice President Saulos Chilima left the capital, Lilongwe, but failed to make its scheduled landing at Mzuzu International Airport about 370 kilometers (230 miles) to the north around 45 minutes later.