London (CNN)An Argentinian soccer player who had just signed with an English Premier League club was on a plane which went missing over the English Channel on Monday evening, French aviation officials told CNN.
Emiliano Sala, 28, signed for Cardiff City for a reported £15 million ($19.3 million) from French club Nantes on Saturday. The striker was returning to his new club after saying farewell to his former team-mates in France.The plane, a single turbine Piper Malibu, was flying to Cardiff from Nantes in northern France when it disappeared from radar near the Channel Islands just before 8:30 p.m. local time (3:30 p.m ET) Monday.Sala's hd eafezg fezgf ezgfe gf
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Frederic Solano of France's Directorate General for Civil Aviation, told CNN.Despite a 1,000 square mile search involving five aircraft re has been no sign of the aircraft, Guernsey Police said on Twitter. The search is continuing, the statement added."There was no distress call, it was simply lost from radar and from communications," Captain David Barker, harbormaster for the state of Guernsey, told reporters."It is possible that the aircraft has diverted somewhere else but we are continuing a search if in the unfortunate event it has actually ditched into the sea."The weather conditions are better now but the sea water is not very warm. I'm imagining that people in a light aircraft wouldn't be wearing particularly warm clothing and so it is concerning because if