Hopes fade away for missing footballer Emiliano Sala

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal</p> <p>LONDON (AA) – The hopes of finding alive 3 people, who went missing when a light airplane vanished from the radar over the English Channel on Monday, are fading as the search and rescue teams’ efforts failed to reach any findings on Wednesday.</p> <p>“After an intensive search using multiple aircraft and one lifeboat over the last nine hours, we have found no trace of the missing plane,” the Guernsey police said.</p> <p>Search and rescue efforts resumed on Wednesday to find the airplane carrying three people including a newly signed English Premier League footballer, Emiliano Sala.</p> <p>The pilot of the airplane has been identified as David Ibbotson by British media. A third person who is believed to be aboard the plane is still to be identified.</p> <p>The Argentinian footballer was on his way to join his new club, Cardiff City FC, after he signed a contract of £15 million ($19.5 million).</p> <p>Sala has been reported to have sent a message via voicemail to his father, saying he was frightened the plane was about to break up.</p> <p>According to media reports in Argentina, he said: &quot;I’m here on a plane that looks like it’s about to fall apart, and I’m going to Cardiff.</p> <p>&quot;If in an hour and a half you have no news from me, I don’t know if they are going to send someone to look for me because they cannot find me, but you know … Dad, how scared am I!.”</p> <p>John Fitzgerald, chief officer of Channel Islands Air Search, said he can't see “how anybody could survive in such temperatures for that length of time.”</p> <p>&quot;Looking at the sea conditions today it's very rough out there, there's a good strong wind blowing, with sea conditions [that] are pretty horrendous,&quot; he said.</p> <p>“A decision about whether to recommence will be taken early tomorrow morning,” the Guernsey police said.