As the body was being ferried out of a South African military plane by high-ranking officers from the South African National Defence Force, one of them stumbled down the steps of the aircraft.
He limped a few steps before he joined the parade of the soldiers that handed over the body to the Malawi Armed Forces, apparently having suffered a minor injury.
"I stopped crying for a while to control my laughter", commented one friend on his Facebook page.
The picture here shows the towering officer failing to control himself as he slipped down the airplane ladder.
