Light aircraft gone down from Nantes to Cardiff near Guernsey last night?

[Hometown Unicorn!]

Horrific news, absolutely awful, really hope they can be found safe somehow.

[MacAdder]

Shocking news.
Was moved earlier watched on BBC news that Tony from Sheffield has been granted his commemorative fly past for the WW2 airmen who crashed 75 yrs ago and sickened within minutes to hear of this desperately sad news.
Thoughts and prayers with his and pilot's family.

[A Quiet Monkfish]

This is horrible.

[nearly 40]

Just spoke to a mate who volunteers for RNLI and he said it will be Lifeboats searching as the weather is worsening so they will be doing a box search which takes time,*especially if it's getting rough. Which it does in that area. As the aircraft disappeared off radar it will be a big area to search so the lifeboats will take several hours to cover the area

[splott parker]

This is surreal, you obviously hear of things like this but this is so close to home, Cardiff City are part of all our families and Emiliano is a new addition to the fold, he's one of ours.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Just spoke to a mate who volunteers for RNLI and he said it will be Lifeboats searching as the weather is worsening so they will be doing a box search which takes time,*especially if it's getting rough. Which it does in that area. As the aircraft disappeared off radar it will be a big area to search so the lifeboats will take several hours to cover the area

Unfortunately, the plane seemed to have ditched before 9pm last night so things look very bleak and enormously depressing.

[rs3100]

Just spoke to a mate who volunteers for RNLI and he said it will be Lifeboats searching as the weather is worsening so they will be doing a box search which takes time,*especially if it's getting rough. Which it does in that area. As the aircraft disappeared off radar it will be a big area to search so the lifeboats will take several hours to cover the area

Plus with waves getting bigger a small plane, even if still intact, would be difficult to spot in the troughs, a person bobbing on the sea would be even harder to spot. Ideally they need helicopters or spotter planes, but that's not always possible especially with bad weather. Good luck to them.

[Toadstool]

Lets Hope...

BBC says plane lost contact near Casquets lighthouse - if there is a lighthouse there must be some land of some description - hopefully it was not a crash and the occupants have managed to get to land and are awaiting rescue.

Fingers Crossed.

[Zenith]

This is horrific news. Hopefully there are survivors.

[Baker]

Friend works for BA and is pretty much obsessed with planes. Seems to think the light aircraft stands no chance with a collision to the sea, and even doubts the were flotation devices on board

[Shute]

It’s really lookin bad for Emiliano Sala and everyone else on board, the plane requested and emergency landing at 5000 feet to land on one of the Channel Islands, soon after there was an emergency call at 2000, after this the plane went off the radar.

Just saw this on twitter. I don't know if that's true. Shocking.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Reports I've seen say it was called off because of rising winds

Thanks. My concentration went by the time he mentioned exactly why.

[Pedro de la Rosa]

Just saw this on twitter. I don't know if that's true. Shocking.

Guy is a Newcastle fan who's previous tweet was mocking his death. Ignore.

[Zenith]

https://www.skysports.com/football/n...ssing-aircraft

[Vindec]

Now in the Daily Mail


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...l-Islands.html

[rs3100]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footb...-live-13890265

10.02 French police confirm Sala was on board
French police have now confirmed that Sala was on board the plane.

Guernsey Police said that the Piper Malibu aircraft disappeared at about 8.30pm en route from Nantes to Cardiff.

The pilot was the only other person on board.

[Zenith]

Sky Sports News reporting he was on board last night

[lardy]

Just saw this on twitter. I don't know if that's true. Shocking.

The same is on this page under what we know so far

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...-a8740006.html

[Gofer Blue]

According to the BBC Guernsey report "the flight disappeared off radar near the Casquets lighthouse, infamous among mariners as the site of many shipwrecks, 13km north-west of Alderney". That doesn't sound good - presumably quite a rocky area then.

[Pedro de la Rosa]

According to the BBC Guernsey report "the flight disappeared off radar near the Casquets lighthouse, infamous among mariners as the site of many shipwrecks, 13km north-west of Alderney". That doesn't sound good - presumably quite a rocky area then.

Just got to pray he's managed to get himself on a rock and is there! Just need a miracle that he and the pilot are OK.

[Zenith]

Nantes have had their game postponed tomorrow, looking extremely bad for all involved.

[Baker]

I just can't believe it. If he's gone down where it's reported and survived somehow, they would have had to swam to St Anne?

[Rocco Siffredi]

At half eight last night the seas in Pembrokeshire were as rough as hell . No chance at all .

[Ras Malai]

i cant fuggin believe this shit

[Baloo]

Devastating and shocking news.