{"id":8762,"date":"2024-06-10T22:41:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T19:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=8762"},"modified":"2024-06-10T22:41:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T19:11:18","slug":"plane-carrying-malawis-vp-missing-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=8762","title":{"rendered":"Plane carrying Malawi&#8217;s VP missing: govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-lg-9\">\n<div id=\"details_content\" class=\"bottom_border\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-9\">\n<div class=\"headline_content_block post_template-0\">\n<div class=\"headline_section mb-2\">\n<h4 class=\"font-weight-bold\">World Desk:<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"font-weight-bold\">\u00a0A military aircraft carrying Malawi&#8217;s vice president Saulos Chilima has been reported missing after it failed to make a landing Monday morning, the government said.&#8221;All efforts by aviation authorities to make contact with the aircraft since it went off the radar have failed thus far,&#8221; the government said in a statement.The plane, which took off just after 9:00 am local time (0700 GMT), was carrying 51-year-old Chilima and nine others.President Lazarus Chakwera has ordered regional and national forces to conduct an &#8220;immediate search and rescue operation to locate the whereabouts of the aircraft&#8221;, the statement said.Chakwera, who was due to travel to the Bahamas for a working visit, has since cancelled his trip.In 2022, Chilima was stripped of his powers when he was arrested and charged with graft over a bribery scandal involving a British-Malawian businessman.Last month, a Malawian court dropped the charges after Chilima attended several court appearances.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dtl_share_blk clearfix\">\n<div id=\"st-2\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons text-left st-center  st-inline-share-buttons st-animated\">\n<div class=\"st-btn st-first\" data-network=\"facebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/facebook.svg\" alt=\"facebook sharing button\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"st-btn\" data-network=\"messenger\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/messenger.svg\" alt=\"messenger sharing button\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"st-btn\" data-network=\"twitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/twitter.svg\" alt=\"twitter sharing button\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"st-btn st-last\" data-network=\"whatsapp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/whatsapp.svg\" alt=\"whatsapp sharing button\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-3\">\n<div class=\"border\">\n<div class=\"tab_bar_block_new\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Desk: \u00a0A military aircraft carrying Malawi&#8217;s vice president Saulos Chilima has been reported missing after it failed to make a landing Monday morning, the government said.&#8221;All efforts by aviation authorities to make contact with the aircraft since it went off the radar have failed thus far,&#8221; the government said in a statement.The plane, which took off just after 9:00 am local time (0700 GMT), was carrying 51-year-old Chilima and nine others.President Lazarus Chakwera has ordered regional and national forces to conduct an &#8220;immediate search and rescue operation to locate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"yes","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_5980380192037842_108390337697511":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8764,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8762\/revisions\/8764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}