Update: Audio reveals a message from Emiliano Sala before the suspected plane crash. Emiliano Sala, Cardiff City’s record new signing, expressed concern about his plane shortly before the light aircraft disappeared over the Channel, according to an audio message sent to friends and relatives.
The Argentine striker, signed on Saturday from French club Nantes for £15million, was flying to Cardiff aboard the plane that disappeared from radar around 12 miles north of the island of Guernsey on Monday night.
“I’m on a plane that looks like it’s going to fall apart, and I’m leaving for Cardiff,” Sala said in a WhatsApp audio message carried by Argentine newspaper Clarin.
Argentinian media outlet Ole have now released haunting verified audio sent from Sala to close friends on WhatsApp in the final moments before the plane vanished over the English Channel.
“I’m here on a plane that looks like it’s about to fall apart, and I’m going to Cardiff, crazy, tomorrow we already start, and in the afternoon we start training, boys, in my new team…,” Sala says.
“Hello, little brothers, how are you, crazy people?
“Brother, I’m dead, I was here in Nantes doing things, things, things, things and things, and it never stops, it never stops, it never stops.
“I’m here on a plane that looks like it’s about to fall apart, and I’m going to Cardiff, crazy, tomorrow we already start, and in the afternoon we start training, boys, in my new team…
“Let’s see what happens, so, how are you brothers and sisters, all right?
“If in an hour and a half you have no news from me, I don’t know if they are going to send someone to look for me because they cannot find me, but you know … Dad, how scared am I!”
Reports suggest Sala had expressed concern about the flight having travelled from Cardiff back to France in the same plane over the weekend.
He texted friends once on board to say the plane was making “weird noises” before the plane was reported as missing at around 8:30pm on Monday night.
The light aircraft had been flying at 5000ft but requested to land while passing Guernsey, with the a single-engine plane last detected at 2300 feet when they lost contact with Jersey air traffic controllers.
Cardiff City cancelled training on Tuesday, which was due to be Sala’s first day with his new team-mates, in the wake of the tragic incident.
Source: Mirror UK
