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Premier League footballer Emiliano Sala was on a light aircraft which went missing over the Channel Islands.

 

The £15m Argentine striker, 28, was one of two people on board the Piper Malibu which lost contact off Alderney in the Channel Islands on Monday night.

 

Cardiff City, which signed Sala from French club Nantes in a record deal on Saturday, said it was "very shocked".

 

Guernsey Police said there was "no trace" of the Cardiff-bound flight and has suspended the search for the night.

 

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1 hour ago, craig said:

Cardiff cancelled training this morning because of it.  I fear the worst.

Sadly I have to agree. Even if they ditched into the water and survived it no one could live long in those waters. It's too cold.

 

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Guernsey Police said there was "no trace" of the flight on Tuesday before suspending the search for the night.

No trace also suggests it disintegrated on impact.

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4 hours ago, Gribz said:

A tragic bit of news. I think he was at Cardiff on Friday. He must have just been doing a short trip back to Nantes to get things.

He went back to deal with personal things and to say farewell to his Nantes team-mates.

 

if you get the chance check out the chronology of events.... it really does make things look like they are made out for you.

 

One of his team mates got injured or suspended so Nantes wanted him to play one more game.... had that not happened Cardiff would have had him signed in time for the game against Newcastle on Saturday and he may never have been on that plane.

 

Tragic sequence of events.

 

JFK - they are reporting that pieces of debris have been seen floating on the water’s surface.

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12 hours ago, craig said:

JFK - they are reporting that pieces of debris have been seen floating on the water’s surface.

A recent report says there has been no trace of debris.

 

 

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Jersey's inshore lifeboat followed up on reports of debris in Bouley Bay, which is in the north of the island, but failed to find any debris.

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Guernsey Police is working on four possibilities, including that the "aircraft broke up on contact with the water, leaving them in the sea" and they "landed on water and made it into the life raft we know was on board".

"Our search area is prioritised on the life raft option," the force added.

If they were in a raft they would have been found by now.

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