Malawi president: All killed on plane carrying vice president Chilima

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Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera said on Tuesday (June 11) during an address to the nation that everyone on board the airplane carrying Malawi Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima that went missing on Monday had been killed.   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/mpdb4bff  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The search and rescue operation I ordered to find the missing plane that carried our vice president

00:08and nine others has been completed and the plane has been found.

00:16And I am deeply saddened

00:21and sorry to inform you all that it has turned out to be a terrible tragedy.

00:29The search and rescue team has found the aircraft near a hill in the Chikangawa forest

00:39and they have found it completely destroyed

00:42with no survivors as all passengers on board were killed on impact.

00:49Words cannot describe how heartbreaking this is

00:56and I can only imagine how much pain and anguish you all must be feeling at this time.

01:04That aircraft is an aircraft I have myself used on similar trips,

01:12an aircraft that others had used just the day before.

01:18And an aircraft that the crew had just operated successfully just hours before.

01:26And yet despite the track record of the aircraft and the experience of the crew,

01:34something terrible went wrong with that aircraft on its flight back to Lilongwe,

01:41sending it crashing down and killing everyone on board

01:45and leaving us all devastated and asking ourselves questions

01:51whose answers cannot take away the pain and the helplessness we feel from this loss.

02:00Dr. Salas Klaus Chidimaw was a good man, a devoted father and husband,

02:06a patriotic citizen who served his country with distinction

02:12with distinction and a formidable vice president.

02:16I consider it one of the greatest honors of my life

02:20to have had him as my deputy and counselor for the past four years.

02:26And his passing is a terrible loss to his wife Mary, his family, his friends,

02:33his colleagues in the cabinet and to all of us as a nation

02:39that found his leadership and courage a source of inspiration.

02:45And I know that even the others who were on that flight were men and women of honor

02:53who served their country with distinction and whose families are left with broken hearts today.

03:01I'm profoundly sorry to all of you for this terrible loss.

03:06And I pray to God to comfort us all and to bind up our wounds

03:11as we mourn together as one nation under one flag.

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