A small plane, in the well-being of the Argentinian footballer Emiliano Sala was, disappeared on Monday evening on the flight from Nantes to Cardiff, around 20 kilometres North of the channel island of Guernsey. This is the local police announced Tuesday. It is believed that the machine in the channel is brought down. The water temperature is currently only about ten degrees.

A multi-hour search operation in the night was canceled due to strong winds, high seas and poor visibility are unsuccessful, on Tuesday morning, but with helicopters of the British and French coast guard resumed. On Board of the missing machine should have two people been found.

According to the French news Agency AFP, the Argentine football player Emiliano Sala was on Board of the machine. Like the French channel, France Info reported, was to operate the business aircraft of the type Piper Malibu with two passengers and one pilot had been occupied, the British police wrote to two people on Board. Accordingly, the search due to bad weather was canceled conditions in the night and in the Morning resumed. The plane was on the way from the French city of Nantes to Cardiff.