{"id":45779,"date":"2026-09-17T18:21:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=45779"},"modified":"2026-09-17T18:24:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:24:49","slug":"malawi-parliament-continues-chilima-plane-crash-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/malawi-parliament-continues-chilima-plane-crash-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi parliament continues Chilima plane crash inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Malawi&#8217;s 13-member parliamentary Ad Hoc Committee, led by Chairperson Walter Nyamilandu Manda, is continuing its inquiry into the June 10, 2024 plane crash that killed former Vice-President Saulos Chilima and eight others.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0On Wednesday, community witness Flora Mkandawire told the committee that she was threatened and that police detained her two sons after she reported the crash to authorities.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Mkandawire said she was collecting firewood in the Chikangawa Forest when she saw the aircraft flying for about three minutes before it appeared to change course and crash.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014ChannelAfrica\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":43329,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[],"class_list":["post-45779","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Mkandawire said she was collecting firewood in the Chikangawa Forest.","published_date":"","news_description":"Mkandawire said she was collecting firewood in the Chikangawa Forest.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45782,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45779\/revisions\/45782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=45779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}