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

[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

[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.