24 Jan 2019

Hopes fade in search for Emiliano Sala in English Channel

From Morning Report, 6:46 am on 24 January 2019

Hopes of finding the missing Argentinian footballer Emiliano Sala alive are fading, as the search continues for the plane he was in which disappeared in the English Channel on Monday evening, local time. Sala had just signed a lucrative contract with the football club Cardiff City, and he was travelling to the UK to join the team after leaving the French club Nantes. The 28-year-old sent an audio message from the plane. Oliver Whitfield-Miocic is our correspondent in Paris.