Former Zomba Air Base Operations and Training Officer Captain Henry Nthani has delivered one of the strongest and most emotionally charged assessments yet of the military aircraft crash that killed Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima and eight others on 10 June 2024, telling a parliamentary ad hoc committee that the disaster was "a very unavoidable fatal accident."
His testimony goes beyond simply recounting what may have happened in the skies above Chikangawa Forest. It paints a picture of experienced pilots battling impossible conditions, making split-second decisions that may have prevented an even more horrific outcome, while exposing deeper concerns about Malawi's aviation infrastructure, aging equipment and limited investigative capabilities.
