Soccer star Emiliano Sala was on missing plane, French officials say
London (CNN)An Argentinian soccer player who had just signed with an English Premier League club was on a plane which went missing over the English Channel on Monday evening, French aviation officials told CNN.
Emiliano Sala, 28, signed for Cardiff City for a reported £15 million ($19.3 million) from French club Nantes on Saturday. The striker was returning to his new club after saying farewell to his former team-mates in France.
The plane, a single turbine Piper Malibu, was flying to Cardiff from Nantes in northern France when it disappeared from radar near the Channel Islands just before 8:30 p.m. local time (3:30 p.m ET) Monday.
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