Malawi: Ex-Military Pilot Tells Inquiry Weather Made Chilima Flight Unsafe - 'I Would Not Have Taken Off'

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1. Thu, 27 August 2026

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   • AllAfrica04:02first to report
     Malawi: Ex-Military Pilot Tells Inquiry Weather Made Chilima Flight Unsafe - 'I Would Not Have Taken Off'

     [Nyasa Times] A retired military pilot has told the parliamentary committee investigating the Chikangawa plane crash that he would not have permitted the aircraft carrying former vice-president Saulos Chilima to depart, given the weather conditions at Mzuzu Airdrome on the morning of the crash.

2. Fri, 28 August 2026

   3 reports
   • AllAfrica04:10
     Malawi: Chikangawa Plane Crash Inquiry Hears Conflicting Visibility Reports

     [Nyasa Times] A former weather station chief has delivered explosive testimony to the parliamentary inquiry investigating the Chikangawa plane crash that killed Vice-President Saulos Chilima and eight others, telling the committee the doomed military aircraft could in fact have landed safely at Mzuzu Airport on the morning of the tragedy.

   • AllAfrica15:59
     Malawi: Mzuzu Airport's Safety Gaps Exposed After Chilima's Fatal Crash

     [Nyasa Times] Mzuzu Airport has been operating for more than ten years without functional air navigation equipment and lacks even basic systems to record radio communications, a parliamentary inquiry into aviation safety has been told, in a startling revelation that raises fresh questions over the airfield's role in the fatal crash that killed former Vice-President Saulos Chilima.

   • AllAfrica16:31
     Malawi: Inquiry Hears of Gaps in Tracking Chilima Fatal Plane's Final Movements

     [Nyasa Times] A discrepancy has emerged between the final position reported by the pilot of the military aircraft that crashed near Chikangawa in June last year, killing former vice-president Saulos Chilima and eight others, and the flight-tracking data contained in the German Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation's interim report, a parliamentary inquiry has heard.

3. Tue, 1 September 2026

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   • AllAfrica07:08
     Malawi: MET Chief Reveals No Weather Forecaster Was Deployed for Fatal Chikangawa VVIP Flight

     [Nyasa Times] The Director of Climate Change and Meteorological Services, Lucy Mtilatila, has told the Parliamentary Ad-hoc Committee investigating the Chikangawa plane crash that her department had no advance knowledge of the fateful June 10, 2024 VVIP flight to Mzuzu -- meaning no forecaster was ever sent to support ground operations there.

4. Wed, 2 September 2026

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   • AllAfrica05:21
     Malawi: Chilima Plane Crash Inquiry Lays Bare Malawi's Aviation Safety Crisis

     [Nyasa Times] The parliamentary inquiry into the June 10, 2024 plane crash that killed Vice-President Saulos Chilima and eight others has heard troubling testimony suggesting Malawi's aviation infrastructure suffers from long-standing structural deficiencies -- raising uncomfortable questions about institutional readiness that extend well beyond the immediate circumstances of the crash itself.