The police speaks of a “difficult decision”, but the chances of Survival are extremely low: the search for The suspected downed Argentine footballer Sala has been set.

After the alleged crash of the Argentinian footballer Emiliano Sala over the English channel, the police have adjusted the search for the plane. On Twitter, the police of the British island of Guernsey announced the “difficult decision” after “Review of all available information”. The chances of Survival were “at this time is extremely low”.

Several aircraft and rescue boats

the search had involved several aircraft from the United Kingdom and France, as well as rescue boats. The small plane, the Sala from the French city of Nantes to Wales and Cardiff, had disappeared on Monday evening about 20 kilometers North of Guernsey from the radar screens. Shortly before his Disappearance, Sala had expressed in a dramatic WhatsApp message to friends of the concern, the plane could crash.

Also missing: The Pilot

Sala was on Board, according to the coast guard of Guernsey, only the Pilot. British media reported that it was a 60-year-old father of three children from the North of England Scunthorpe.

Fans have laid flowers at the Cardiff City stadium.

The 28-year-old striker Sala had signed on Saturday an agreement for the exchange from the French first division FC Nantes at the Premier League club Cardiff City. The transfer fee is said to have amounted to 17 million euros. On Monday he had picked up in the training centre of Nantes, his things, before he is made with a propeller-type machine Piper PA-46 Malibu on the way to the UK.