Emiliano Sala was flying to Cardiff when plane carrying him and another person went missing.
Premier League soccer player Emiliano Sala was on board a light plane that disappeared over the English Channel overnight, French aviation authorities have said.
The Argentine was one of the two people on board the Piper Malibu, which went missing off Alderney in the Channel Islands.
Sala was traveling from Nantes, a city in the northeast of France approximately 30 miles from the Atlantic Coast, to Cardiff, where he was due to attend his first training session with Premier League club Cardiff City on Tuesday.
“Mr Sala was aboard this aircraft,” a spokesperson for the French civil aviation authority was quoted as saying by The Guardian .
“The search for it is continuing and that is all I can say.”
The plane left Nantes at 8:15 p.m. local time on Monday (2:15 p.m. ET) and Guernsey Coastguard received an alert an hour later, indicating a light aircraft had gone missing.
