Vice President of Malawi, has been killed in a plane crash.

The wreck of a plane carrying Saulos Chilima has been found with no survivors, President Lazarus Chakwera has said.

The plane carrying Saulos Chilima and nine other people went missing after it failed to make a scheduled landing on Monday, according to the presidential office.

The Malawi Defense Force Aircraft carrying Chilima and others left the capital of Lilongwe at 9:17 a.m. local time (3.17 a.m. ET), the presidential office and cabinet said in a statement.

The plane had been scheduled to land at the Mzuzu International Airport, about 380 km (240 miles) to the north of Lilongwe, but did not arrive and is no longer detectable by radar, according to authorities.