INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Tuesday for a light aircraft carrying Cardiff City soccer player Emiliano Sala which went missing off Guernsey.Rescue helicopters and
lifeboats scoured seas off Channel Islands and French police sources confirmed 28-year-old Argentine forward was on board single-engine
Piper Malibu which disappeared from radar screens late on Monday evening.Sala joined Premier League strugglers Cardiff City from FC Nantes
last week for a club record fee of about 17 million euros
He had played in France since 2012.Local coastguards were alerted by air traffic control at 20:23 GMT that an aircraft with two people on
board had gone missing.Lifeboats and helicopters were sent out but search was suspended four hours later as wind strengthened and visibility
deteriorated.Search teams resumed work on Tuesday morning and had covered more than 1,000 square miles by midday."At this time no trace of
missing aircraft had been found," Guernsey police said.Sala's father told Argentine TV channel C5N: "I didn't know anything because I'm away
from home, I'm a truck driver
A friend who saw it on TV told me
I pray that this ends well."Cardiff City chairman Mehmet Dalman said club was "very concerned" by news of plane's disappearance.Cardiff
tweeted a video clip of Sala last week."It gives me great pleasure and I can't wait to start training, meet my new team mates and get down
to work," he said.Sala scored 12 goals for Nantes this season
Officials of Ligue 1 club did not immediately comment.The plane had been cruising at 5,000 feet when pilot requested to descend to a lower
altitude on passing Guernsey
It lost radar contact at 2,300 feet, Guernsey police said.France's soccer federation said it had postponed Nantes's French Cup last-32 game
against Entente Sannois-Saint Gratien which had been scheduled for Wednesday.(Except for headline, this story has not been edited by
TheIndianSubcontinent staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
