“I’m up here in the airplane that breaks down, apparently, in its individual parts, and am on the way to Cardiff. If you hear in one and a half hours of no news from me: I know not whether ever send someone to look for me, because you won’t find me anyway. Then you do know. Man, I’m so scared.”
These words come from a voice message, which was sent to the lost footballer Emiliano Sala to his friends. A small passenger plane with at least two people aboard, including 28-year-old Argentine professional football player, disappeared late Monday night near the British channel island of Guernsey from the Radar.
The father of the player, Horacio Sala, confirmed by the prestigious Argentine newspaper “Clarín” of the authenticity of the roughly one-minute recording. In the Background motor noise. In spite of his obvious concern for the footballer is, however, not panicky, but more tired. Sala yawns several times.
little hope
Much hinted on Tuesday on a plane crash. It is the course of a search action in the English channel, informed the police of Guernsey during the night to Wednesday. The plane could not be tracked down in the evening. According to the police the search was called off overnight and on Wednesday morning again. John Fitzgerald, chief of the search and rescue teams (Channel Islands Air Search), was compared to “Daily Mail” is very optimistic. He had mountains of little hope, the pilot and the passenger of the plane alive.
On Wednesday, the police pursued the theory that the occupants of the machine had made it onto the life raft of the aircraft. The emergency boat had been on Board the ill machine. Accordingly, the search area has been adjusted. As further options, the police called for a rescue by passing ships after the emergency landing on the water, or emergency landing on Land.
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23rd January
7.30 am update.
We have resumed searching. Two planes are taking off & wants to search a targeted area we believe has the highest likelihood of finding anything, based on review of the tides and weather since it went missing.— Guernsey Police (@Guernsey police) 23. January 2019
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Coastal areas around Alderney and off-lying rocks and islands will also be searched from the air.
Updates will be provided once information is available
— Guernsey Police (@Guernsey police) 23. January 2019
The French civil aviation authority confirmed that Sala aboard the Business aircraft PA 46 Malibu, as several media reported consistently. The police Guernsey stated that a total of two people were on Board the small aircraft, according to France Info, there were two passengers and a Pilot.
just a few days ago Sala was changed after a million transfer from FC Nantes, the club Cardiff City. The Propeller plane was last tracked near the British channel island of Guernsey.
No trace of the aircraft
emergency responders searched an area of 2600 square kilometers, with boats and from the air the sea’s surface to rubble. “There is no trace of the aircraft,” police said Guernsey on Tuesday afternoon. The Pilot had lost in the late Monday night on the way from Western France to Wales and Cardiff over the English channel in contact with the air traffic control.
“We are very concerned for the safety of Emiliano Sala”, said the Chairman of Cardiff City, Mehmet Dalman, according to the British newspaper “the Guardian”. According to his new club should be on Tuesday, his first day on the Team, it said in a statement. You have cancelled the Training for the time being.
on Monday posted Sala on Twitter a photo with the Team of the FC Nantes and said goodbye to his former team. The Team tweeted that Sala will forever remain yellow, and green are the colors of the Western French club. The Club said on Tuesday afternoon, to pray that Sala and the other passengers to be healthy.
“a career in France”
according to media reports, the exchange of the footballer is said to have cost around 17 million euros – a record for Cardiff City. Sala comes from the place Cululú in the Argentine province of Santa Fé, in the North-East of the country. He played in Argentina, never in professional football, but the best ride of his entire career in France, where he was in Orléans, France, Niort, Bordeaux, Caen, and most recently in Nantes under the contract.
Because of the disappearance of Sala, the Cup game between FC Nantes and SSG Entente has been postponed. Actually, the game should take place on Wednesday evening, the French football Federation lists it but as “moved”. According to the sports newspaper “L’équipe” to make up for the game on Sunday.
check out this post on Instagram
?There is a new Sala in town @Premier League ???? Very happy to sign here @cardiffcityfc !! I know the challenge is big but together we will make it ????? ?Impatient to discover the league & the team #BlueBirds ?
(tzi/sda)
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