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Plane carrying Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala is missing over the English Channel

A search is on for a small airplane that disappeared over the English Channel Monday night and was carrying an Argentine soccer player to Wales to join his new Premier League club.

The French civil aviation authority confirmed that Emiliano Sala, 28, was one of two people aboard the plane en route from Nantes to Cardiff when it disappeared from radar, hours after he had said farewell to his teammates on the Nantes team. Strong winds and rough seas had forced British and French authorities to suspend their search of an area known for shipwrecks and strong currents overnight.