Missing plane: search to cover the north coast of Jersey

In an update at 7:50, the Guernsey police tweeted that she would begin a coastal air search, focusing on the Burhou, Alderney and Sark Islands, as well as on the Casquet Rocks and on the north coast of Guernsey. the Cherbourg peninsula.

The tweet says, "We are starting a coastal search using … Channel Islands Air Search Burhou plane, the Casquets, Alderney, the north coast of the Cherbourg Peninsula, the north coast of Jersey and then back over Sark.

"More information published when they are available."

Mr. Sala and pilot David Ibbotson were aboard plane Piper PA-46 Malibu, disappeared from the radar en route from Nantes (France) to Cardiff on Monday night.

John Fitzgerald, chief officer of Channel Islands Air Search, said that it was unlikely that Mr. Sala or Mr. Ibbotson would be found alive.

When asked if this operation was more about salvage than salvage, he told Sky Sports News, "I think it's really that kind of recovery phase now."

Cardiff President Mehmet Dalman described Sala's disappearance as a "tragic accident", but said the light aircraft was not organized by the club.

He also said that the sister of the Argentine lender of £ 15 million was en route to South Wales.

"We continue to collect data to try to understand what happened on that side. All indications are that a tragic accident will occur, "said Dalman.

Sala was back in Wales after saying goodbye to his teammates in Nantes on Monday night after signing a three-and-a-half year contract to join the Bluebirds two days earlier.

According to Guernsey police, the single-engine plane had departed Nantes at 7:15 pm Monday to travel to the Welsh capital and was flying at 5,000 feet above sea level.

After pbading Guernsey, he "requested a descent," but Jersey 's air traffic control lost contact with the plane as it was flying at 2300 feet.

Cardiff general manager Ken Choo described Sala as a "great person" and revealed that this player had described his membership in the Premier League club as "one of the best days of his life".