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LONDON — Before the plane carrying him vanished over the English Channel, an Argentine soccer player sent a chilling audio message from the flight in which he said “I’m so afraid” and warned that the aircraft “seems like it’s falling to pieces,” Argentine news media reported on Tuesday.
Both Emiliano Sala, 28, who had just signed with Cardiff City in the English Premier League, and the pilot, who has not been publicly identified, were feared dead after the disappearance of the plane Monday night.
A joint French and British search effort resumed on Wednesday with airplanes, helicopters and ships, but officials have said that if the missing plane went down in the cold, rough waters, there was little chance that the two people aboard were still alive.