Police on the British island of Gurnsey resumed search Wednesday for the missing plane of Argentine striker Emiliano Sala, who moved from Nantes to Cardiff City in the English Premier League.
Rescue teams are working on the premise that Sala is dead after finding the wreckage of a small tourist plane that disappeared from the radar about 20 km north of Gornisi on Monday night.
"We have resumed the search," the police said on Wednesday. "Two planes took off and were looking at a target area that we believe is the most likely to find anything, based on tides and weather since they disappeared."
"We will be searching from the atmosphere in coastal areas around Alderney (nearby island), rocks and islands."
Sala, who on Saturday signed a transfer from Nantes to Karev in a record 17 million euro deal, was returning to Cardiff from Nantes aboard a Piper BA-46 Malibu.
The 28-year-old Argentine expressed concern over the plane, according to a message from the Watsab application sent to friends and relatives, according to Argentine media reports: "I'm on an airplane that looks like it will disintegrate and I'm going to Cardiff. Within an hour and a half, I do not know if they will send people to search for me, because they will not find me.
Police said a 15-hour search on Tuesday covered an area of 1,555 square kilometers in the canal and spotted "a number of things floating in the water," adding that "we have not found any signs of those on board." If they landed on the water, chances of survival At this stage are unfortunately slim. "