Updated – Search for missing aircraft over Channel Islands underway – Premier League Cardiff City Sala was on board

A light aircraft has gone missing over the Channel Islands.

Premier League club Cardiff City’s record new signing, Argentina-born striker Emiliano Sala, was on board the light aircraft that disappeared over the English Channel on Monday night, French police sources told AFP. 

Guernsey police said two helicopters and lifeboats had been deployed to search for the plane which disappeared from radar on Monday evening.

The BBC said the plane was a Piper Malibu with two people on board that was heading from Nantes in France to Cardiff.

Via GRE, BBC and Euronews

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