BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — A small plane carrying three people crashed into Lake Malawi on Tuesday, authorities said. Malawi said. A Dutch woman who was a passenger survived and was rescued by fishermen, but another passenger and the pilot were missing.
The Dutch woman suffered minor injuries and was being treated in hospital, Malawi’s Information Minister Moses Kumkuyu said in a statement. The plane crashed near the shoreline of Lake Malawi in shallow water, Kumkuyu said. He said the plane had been located and a rescue effort was underway.
Kumkuyu said the plane was a Cessna C210-type aircraft, which normally carries six people, and was flying from the central lakeside town of Nkhotakota to the southern town of Liwonde. It was operated by the Nyasa Express charter company, he said.
Lake Malawi is the third largest lake in Africa and is approximately 580 kilometres long, more than half the length of the country.
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