Premier League striker Emiliano Sala on board missing plane: French police

The Argentina-born striker was travelling to his new club from Brittany.

Premier League soccer player Emiliano Sala was on board a single-engine light aircraft that lost radar contact while flying over the English Channel late on Monday evening, a French police official and a second source said.
Guernsey's coastguard said it received an alert at 20:23 local time from air traffic control that a small aircraft had gone missing approximately 15 miles north of Guernsey.
No trace of the aircraft, carrying Sala from the French city of Nantes to Cardiff, has been found so far.
The Argentina striker was travelling from Nantes airport in Brittany to Wales to complete his transfer to the English Premier League club Cardiff City.
Sala, signed by Cardiff on Saturday from French club Nantes for a reported 17 million euro ($19.3 million) fee, was flying to Cardiff aboard a small plane that disappeared from radars around 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of the island of Guernsey.
When he put pen to paper at Cardiff on Saturday, he said in a statement: "I'm very happy to be here. It gives me great pleasure and I can't wait to start training, meet my new team-mates and get down to work.
"For me it feels special (to be the club's record signing). I have come here wanting to work and to help my team-mates and the club."