Cardiffs rekordkjøp Emiliano Sala is feared to have died after a small plane disappeared over The English channel on Monday evening. Tuesday night was the search called off.

The argentine tip Saturday signed a contract with Cardiff and went from the French club Nantes for 17 million euros, which is equivalent to 166 million.

Småflyet disappeared from radar north of the island of Alderney 15 km from the French coast. Photo: Google Maps. Show more

Before the plane disappeared, he sent a voice message on WhatsApp to friends and family, reprinted in the argentine media.

I’m on a plane that looks like it is going to fall apart. I’m on the way to Cardiff. Madness, already in the morning we start, and in the afternoon I will train with my new team, ” says Sala.

– Father, I’m so afraid

Later he says:

Is it good to you? If you about an hour and a half to not hear anything new from me, I don’t know if they are going to send people to look after me, they’re not going to find me, you know. Father, I’m so scared.

Salas father, Horacio Sala, confirm with the argentine newspaper Clarin that a voice mail message originated from the son.

the Argentinian was one of two passengers on board the aircraft, says French aviation authorities.

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Sala is missing and presumed dead after the that it is not found traces of enmotorsflyet of the type Piper Malibu, which disappeared from radar 20 miles north of Guernsey. The british kanaløya located right outside the French coast.

In the course of the 15-hour-long search in which we used more air and sea vessels from the channel islands, the Uk and France, we have observed several floating objects in the water. We can not verify whether these originated from the aircraft, wrote the Guernsey police on Twitter yesterday.

the Search continues by sunrise Wednesday.

It states that the pilot of the plane told air traffic control on the neighbouring island of Jersey to reduce the flygehøyden. Shortly after the lost one radio contact with the aircraft.

NTB / Dagbladet

Feared to have died. In the evening he was hailed by gamleklubben