Bad weather blamed for Malawi VP's crash

“That aircraft is an aircraft I myself have used on similar trips, an aircraft that others had used just the day before and an aircraft that the crew had operated successfully just hours before,” he said.

He added: “And yet despite the track record of the aircraft and the experience of the crew, something terrible went down with that aircraft on its flight back to Lilongwe, sending it crashing down and killing everyone on board and leaving us devastated and asking ourselves questions whose answers cannot take away the pain and helplessness we feel from this loss,” the President said.