Month: August 2024 Posts

Government to investigate Nkhotakota plane crash – Kamtukule

Aug 21, 2024 Macdonald Kaleso 0 &

Tourism Minister, Vera Kamtukule, says the Government will institute an investigator to ascertain what caused the accident of an aircraft that plunged into Lake Malawi in Nkhotakota yesterday. Kamtukule made the assurance on Wednesday when… ...

Nkhotakota Plane crash victims identified, survivor in stable condition

Aug 21, 2024 Archangel Nzangaya 0 &

Nkhotakota District Hospital has identified the three individuals involved in yesterday's plane crash. According to Dr Jacob Kafulafula, Director of Health and Social Services for Nkhotakota, Pilot Fungay Jonathan, a 50-year-old Zimbabwean national, and Frisco… ...

Two die in Aircraft crash

Aug 21, 2024 Archangel Nzangaya 0 &

The Malawi government has confirmed that a Nyasa Express aircraft crashed into Lake Malawi on Tuesday, resulting in the deaths of two individuals. In a statement, Moses Kunkuyu Kalongashawa, Minister of Information and Digitalisation and… ...

Nyasa express aircraft involved in an accident, Govt confirms

Aug 20, 2024 Mike Kalumbi 0 &

The government has confirmed an aircraft accident that happened in the afternoon of Tuesday, August 20, 2024, in the Nkhotakota district. The accident involved a C210-type aircraft registration number 7QPFU that crashed into Lake Malawi.… ...

AFORD president Enoch Chihana demands inquiry into plane crash

Jul 14, 2024 Burnett Munthali 0 &

Enoch Chihana, President of the Alliance for Democracy (AFORD), has issued a stern ultimatum to President Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera, demanding that a commission of inquiry be established within 20 days to investigate the recent plane… ...

Team of German investigators concludes field work in Malawi

Jul 05, 2024 Burnett Munthali 0 &

A tragic plane crash on June 10 in Chikangawa Forest, Mzimba District, claimed the lives of Malawi's Vice President Saulos Chilima, former First Lady Patricia Shanil Dzimbiri, and seven others.  In response, a specialized team… ...

Sunganimoyo calls Chilima’s family, government not to hide autopsy report

Jun 30, 2024 Vincent Gunde 0 &

Social commentator, Isaiah Emmanuel Sunganimoyo, has called on the family of the departed Vice President of the Republic of Malawi, Saulos Chilima and the MCP-led Tonse Alliance government not to hide the autopsy report. He… ...