A plane carrying vice president of Malawi vanished during a short flight to neighboring city

A plane carrying the vice president of Malawi and nine other people vanished on Monday.

Saulos Chilima, Malawi's 51-year-old vice president, took off at 9:17am this morning on a Malawi Defense Force aircraft from the southeast African country's capital, Lilongwe.

But what should have been less than an hour-long flight turned out to be a days-long search when the plane "disappeared from radar" and never made it to the nearby city of Mzuzu. — Read the rest

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