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Cardiff City star's missing plane could have crashed due to ice on the wings

The missing plane carrying football star Emiliano Sala may have stalled in mid air and crashed into the sea due to a deadly build-up of ice on the wings, aviation experts have said.

On Monday night the six-seater Piper Malibu carrying new Cardiff City signing Sala back from a last hurrah with his former teammates in Nantes fell off the radar over Alderney.

Sala and British pilot David Ibbotson, 60, are both feared dead after coastguards said yesterday that search efforts were now focused on recovery, with no hope of finding survivors.

The Sun reported that one aviation expert said: 'There are reports that the footballer was texting saying the aircraft is shaking and breaking up are classic signs of icing on the wings'.