The Argentine soccer professional Sala sat aboard a small aircraft over the English channel, as the machine disappeared. The rescue workers have little hope to find Sala live.
over the English channel-lost footballer Emiliano Sala can’t be found anymore in the view of the rescuers alive. The air rescue service to Channel Islands Airsearch, declared at the request of the German press Agency. After about 40 hours in the water, there is virtually no chances of Survival for the 28-year-old Argentine and his pilots.
One of the rescuers, the worst was feared “”. The sea water was “so cold at the moment,” said the senior officer, channel Islands air rescue, John Fitzgerald. The search is continuing. It was now a salvage operation.
“I’m scared”
The Argentine football player Emiliano Sala had reported before his Disappearance with a dramatic message from the plane. “I’m in the airplane that looks as if it is falling apart, and to break to Cardiff,” said the 28-year-old striker, according to Argentine media reports of a WhatsApp voice message to friends. “I’m so scared.”
The father of the player, Horacio Sala, confirmed to the Argentine newspaper “Clarín” of the authenticity of the roughly one-minute recording. He said: “The time passes and I have nothing that makes me fear the worst”.
the Pilot was in flight
The Pilot and I, asked before the Disappearance of the machine in the air space surveillance to the altitude decrease is reported to the police. Shortly thereafter, the contact of the small plane had been canceled.
The single-engine small aircraft should bring Sala from the French city of Nantes to Wales and Cardiff. The machine had disappeared on Monday night over the English channel from the radar screens. A large-scale search operation brought no success.
“hour of uncertainty, a lot of sadness”
The club President of the football club San Martín Athletic Club in Progreso, Daniel Ribero, the language of the “hours of uncertainty, much pain, much sadness”. The Association continued on Tuesday with the Training. Fans laid down flowers at the stadium.
A Fan of FC Nantes mourns the death of Emiliano Sala. He had only signed on Saturday an agreement for the exchange of Nantes to Cardiff.
Salas Ex-club of Nantes suspended his Cup game against Entente Sannois Saint-Gratien from Wednesday to Sunday. Hundreds of Fans came together to a mourning rally.
Sala had only signed on Saturday an agreement for the exchange from the French Club FC Nantes at the Premier League club Cardiff. The transfer fee is said to have amounted to 17 million euros. On Monday, the striker had picked up in the training centre of Nantes, his stuff, before he went on his way to the UK.