Salas last WhatsApp: “I’m scared”

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From the Argentine football player Emiliano Sala, each track is missing. The 28-Year-old was with a small plane on the way to his new British club and has a presentiment of evil.

Thoughts are with Emiliano Sala: A Fan with flowers in the club colours of FC Nantes

“I’m up here in the airplane that breaks down, apparently, in its individual parts, and am on the way to Cardiff,” said Emiliano Sala, in his last voice message on WhatsApp. “If you hear in one and a half hours of no news from me: I don’t know if the ever send someone to look for me, because you won’t find me anyway. Then you do know. Dad, I’m scared.”

In fact, there is indicated soon after an accident over the English channel. The single-engine small aircraft of the type Piper PA-46 Malibu with the young Argentines aboard disappeared on the way from the Western French city of Nantes to Wales and Cardiff over the English channel from the Radar.

Professional football player Emiliano Sala joined on the weekend for the British club Cardiff City

Sala had only signed on Saturday an agreement for the exchange from the French Club FC Nantes at the Premier League club Cardiff. The transfer fee is said to have amounted to 17 million euros. On Monday, the striker had picked up in the training centre of Nantes, his stuff, before he went on his way to the UK. The Propeller plane was last tracked near the British channel island of Guernsey.

“No trace” of the plane

The father of the player, Horacio Sala, confirmed by the prestigious Argentine newspaper “Clarín” of the authenticity of the roughly one-minute recording, the Sala friends who are also football players sent. In the Background motor noise. In spite of his obvious concern for the footballer is, however, not panicky, but more tired. Sala yawns several times. He probably had a long day in Nantes: “I am totally broken. I was in Nantes and I have to get stuff done – it just wouldn’t stop. Tomorrow, I’m going to train with the new team. Let’s see how it goes.”

Fans of FC Nantes, the Sala has only just left, gathered together after the Disappearance of the aircraft

Instead, rescue workers sought soon after, with two boats and five aircraft the sea surface to rubble. “There is no trace of the aircraft,” police said Guernsey on Tuesday afternoon, after about 2500 square kilometers were scoured in the English channel. According to their information the Pilot was next to the Sala is still on Board. The station France Info reported by two passengers, in addition to the pilot.

The police estimates that the chances of Survival as low. On the evening of the search due to darkness had been interrupted, since this Wednesday morning is continued. The rescuers focus on that Sala and his Pilot could have saved in a raft that was aboard the missing small aircraft. Other scenarios are that the plane could have gone to the country, that the two men were picked up by a ship, or that the plane could be shattered by the impact on the water, police said in a Twitter message. “Our search area is focused on the life-raft Option.”

rb/ust (afp, dpa, sid)