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The 28-year-old Argentine was on his way to meet his new colleagues at Cardiff City after signing for the club last week in a £15 million deal.
He was travelling back to Wales from Nantes in Brittany after signing with the Welsh club.
There were "genuine concerns" for his safety today after the Piper Malibu plane registration PA 46 went off radar screens close to the Channel Islands.
Its one of the busiest shipping lane's in the world I'm sure there will be something to report before too long.
Jan 22, 2019 -- 6:59PM, robbo007 wrote:
Anyone any thoughts on why not found as yet? Not the biggest expanse of water, would a light aircraft break up and effectively sink on impact thus making it difficult?
The prospects of a successful ditching (assuming it wasn't inadvertently flown into the sea) at night are extremely low. Chances of a break up and sink scenario are highly likely.
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Emiliano Sala’s ex-team-mate Diego Rolán to Radio 1010 AM: “Emiliano sent a message to a friend during the flight & told him that he was scared. That if they never spoke again, he would know what happened.”
Poor lad.
Venture.
Jan 22, 2019 -- 9:59PM, leazes67 wrote:
Reports say take off attempted 2/3 times.
Even if that is true, it's almost certainly a red herring.
What we don't know at the moment is whether the aeroplane was scheduled to stop in Guernsey on the way back, as it had travelling in the opposite direction on Saturday. If it wasn't, why was it flying so low? (other aeroplanes reported ice accumulation on the wings at similar altitudes in the area on the day of the accident, yet it was a pressurised aeroplane and capable of flying above the clouds and out of icing conditions). The pilot requested to descend from 5000' to 2300' for some reason prior to the accident.... (possibly to get out of the ice-forming clouds)
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Emiliano Sala complained about a plane that looked like it was "about to fall apart" in a chilling final message before his disappearance.
The Cardiff City striker, signed for a club record £15million fee from Nantes, is feared dead after his plane went missing whilst travelling to the Welsh capital.
Guernsey Police have confirmed they have called off the search for the night and said the chances of survival for Sala or the pilot are "unfortunately slim".
Argentinian media outlet Ole have now released haunting verified audio sent from Sala to close friends on WhatsApp in the final moments before the plane vanished over the English Channel.
Sala says: “Hello, little brothers, how are you crazy people?
"Brother, I’m dead, I was here in Nantes doing things, things, things, things and things, and it never stops, it never stops, it never stops.
"I’m here on a plane that looks like it’s about to fall apart, and I’m going to Cardiff, crazy, tomorrow we already start, and in the afternoon we start training, boys, in my new team…
"Let’s see what happens, so, how are you brothers and sisters, all right?
"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!”
Reports suggest Sala had expressed concern about the flight having travelled from Cardiff back to France in the same plane over the weekend.
He texted friends once on board to say the plane was making "weird noises" before the plane was reported as missing at around 8:30pm on Monday night.
The light aircraft had been flying at 5000ft but requested to land while passing Guernsey, with the a single-engine plane last detected at 2300 feet when they lost contact with Jersey air traffic controllers.
Cardiff City cancelled training on Tuesday, which was due to be Sala's first day with his new team-mates, in the wake of the tragic incident.
Jan 23, 2019 -- 4:20PM, darren_discombobulates_sports wrote:
apparently the plane he was travelling in was 35 years old, think anything over 15 years in aviation is considered old, 35 years is living well into borrowed time.
That really depends how well it's maintained.
It's all very well dumping people with parachutes out the side door of an aeroplane at an airfield you know like the back of your hand, and quite different flying a single-engine prop, over the sea, at night and in the face of icing conditions. Whoever put pilot and passenger together bears a significant brunt of the liability here, it seems.
Jan 23, 2019 -- 5:53PM, howard wrote:
If you get decent wages sometimes the best bet is
Sky said that plane was used as it could stay in France for a few days and then fly him back....
Very chilling message - poor kid.
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His agent booked it at his request
Easy for him to say after the event.
Cardiff saying the same mind - they offered Commercial flights according to them.
What happens to th 15m? Do Cardiff get compensated by the Ins Company assuming they're covered?
never understand flying in a single engine plane
passing the blame now..
Jan 23, 2019 -- 9:10PM, kenny mann wrote:
All very sad.What happens to th 15m? Do Cardiff get compensated by the Ins Company assuming they're covered?
yes, but only if he was insured
you normally cant insure a player purchased on the weekend until Monday morning which is why most deals if not confirmed Friday night are confirmed Monday morning
Cardiff announced his signing on a Saturday night, but for all we know the insurance could have been in place on the Friday or they put it through Monday morning.
Shame as Shergar...no payout because no body was ever found.
covered in the insurance, not lack of a body.
doesnt do the lad , the pilot, and their families any good whatsoever
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Jan 23, 2019 -- 9:10PM, kenny mann wrote:
All very sad.What happens to th 15m? Do Cardiff get compensated by the Ins Company assuming they're covered?
yes, but only if he was insured
you normally cant insure a player purchased on the weekend until Monday morning which is why most deals if not confirmed Friday night are confirmed Monday morning
Cardiff announced his signing on a Saturday night, but for all we know the insurance could have been in place on the Friday or they put it through Monday morning.
jaysus, so potentially out 15 bars because Cardiff didn't think of this. a lesson in insurance and the im portance of getting it right.
Feb 6, 2019 -- 7:34PM, donny osmond wrote:
probably equally disgusting cardiff havnt paid , saying they are checking the paperwork.doesnt do the lad , the pilot, and their families any good whatsoever
Agreed.
Dock 6 points off the feckers.
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Feb 9, 2019 -- 8:27AM, The Dragon wrote:
very very sad why was he on a rickety plane like that?
From what I've read elsewhere, there are likely to be an awful lot of questions about the legality of the flight at all, let alone what it was in....
The more this story runs, the more incredible it seems....
1. this will be a matter of contractual detail and interpretation, and could run and run.
2. being colour-blind does not prevent you from being a pilot. You just can't fly at night.
Mar 30, 2019 -- 2:49PM, Ibrahima Sonko wrote:
Beginning to show agents only care about one thing.
100%, IS!
Mar 30, 2019 -- 11:04PM, blackbarn wrote:
"Isnt there a story that Cardiff are refusing to pay Nantes as they say the transfer was not legally binding, also the pilot in the crash was apparently colour blind. you couldn't make it up!!!"1. this will be a matter of contractual detail and interpretation, and could run and run. 2. being colour-blind does not prevent you from being a pilot. You just can't fly at night.
Everybody is just out to ensure that they were not holding the parcel when the music stopped as it has to be highly debatable as to whether there will be an insurance payout forthcoming given just how messy this whole sorry affair is. The pilot clearly wasn't legal to fly as it did, the aeroplane wasn't legal to be flown as it was, and it is probably fairly safe to assume that there was to be some 'payment in kind' for the flight (given the pilot had just been issued with yet another CCJ), again something which he was not legal for.
families have been told of this.
