Channel Islands Air Search chief officer John Fitzgerald has said there is "no hope" of finding missing Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala and a pilot alive.

The striker and his pilot were in the plane that vanished on Monday night on his way to Cardiff.

Sala was heading to the Welsh capital aftersigning for the Bluebirds from French club Nantes in a £15m deal.

The single-engine plane left Nantes, north-west France, at 19:15 on Monday and had been flying at 5,000ft (1,500m) over the Channel Islands when it contacted Jersey air traffic control requesting descent.

It lost contact while at 2,300ft (700m) and disappeared off radar near the Casquets lighthouse, infamous among mariners as the site of many shipwrecks, eight miles (13km) north-west of Alderney.

Police said the search to find the Argentine striker, 28, and Mr Ibbotson, from Crowle, Lincolnshire, was ongoing.

The pilot of the Piper Malibu aircraft has been named a Dave Ibbotson, a 60-year-old British father of three.

Sala reportedly sent a WhatsApp voice message to family.

Sounding conversational and jokey, he said he was "so scared".

MySportDab report Channel Islands Air Search chief officer Mr Fitzgerald said: "Sadly, I really don't think, personally, there is any hope.

"At this time of year the conditions out there are pretty horrendous if you are actually in the water."

See more;https://www.mysportdab.com/2019/01/emiliano-sala-hope-for-missing-cardiff.html

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No hope you say?" chai! God!!

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Too bad

Quite unfortunate

God this is so sad. Sala was just beginner to enjoy a truly illustrious career. got signed for a club record fee and he's not even played a single match for them. so

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It is well

These kidnappers will not go unpunished

60yrs old pilot
Is this man not to old to fly a jet?
Mohamed Salah never want a rival namesake before

hmmmm even though all physical evidence might suggest no hope of finding a survival all hope must not be lost till their corpse are recovered ...We all remember how western divers brought in to rescue the Sunken Nigerians ship JASCON 4 3 days after the ship sank said there was no hope of finding anyone alive at that time but were shocked to find a Nigerian cook under the water in good health and not a scratch ..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um1ym9u8XaA

Chai! So unfortunate.

You're welcome, OP.

That guy is gone.

The hope of finding sala alive is very slim now

Let me see if i can Skype him from my village calabash...chai e go hard o

Na wa! wetin man go talk :x

What happens to the transfer fee now?

May the wishes of our haters not succeed in our times of promotion. Dear Lord. I pray he is found.

I don't think they will ever be found dead or alive
Worst thing that can ever happen to a business. Big financial loss for Cardiff City fc.

Every year many aircraft goes missing and they are nevered found again. I think it should be mandatory for flyers to have a personal GPS installed on their bodies. Whether short or long distance travel.

So sad.

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His agent shouldnt have hired a light, single engine plane to fly him in the extremely cold and icy weather, the plane was over 30 years old and notoriously prone to crashes, may his soul rest in peace.

Its quite pathetic this is happening......

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So sad

What a way to disappear from this earth. In search of greener pastures. God let there be hope please