As the search continues in the English Channel for Emiliano Sala, an Argentine media outlet released what it said was a WhatsApp voice message from the soccer player to friends, saying he was “scared” and “I’m on a plane that looks like it’s about to fall apart.”
Sala was flying Monday night from Nantes to Cardiff to join his new team when the Piper Malibu aircraft carrying him and a pilot vanished, presumably crashing somewhere near Guernsey and Alderney in the Channel Islands. An extensive search and rescue mission has been undertaken again Wednesday, but one rescuer said there was “no hope” of finding Sala and the pilot.