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Cardiff record signing Sala on missing plane

WalkerboyUK

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The transcript of a WhatsApp audio message he sent out shortly before the plane disappeared is quite chilling:

"I’m here on a plane that looks like it’s about to fall apart, and I’m going to Cardiff, crazy, tomorrow we already start, and in the afternoon we start training, boys, in my new team…

"Let’s see what happens, so, how are you brothers and sisters, all right?

"If in an hour and a half you have no news from me, I don’t know if they are going to send someone to look for me because they cannot find me, but you know … Dad, how scared am I!”
 

TheChosenOne

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The transcript of a WhatsApp audio message he sent out shortly before the plane disappeared is quite chilling:

"I’m here on a plane that looks like it’s about to fall apart, and I’m going to Cardiff, crazy, tomorrow we already start, and in the afternoon we start training, boys, in my new team…

"Let’s see what happens, so, how are you brothers and sisters, all right?

"If in an hour and a half you have no news from me, I don’t know if they are going to send someone to look for me because they cannot find me, but you know … Dad, how scared am I!”


Madness ! So so wrong. For any human being knowingly be put on a plane that doesn't look right - to their doom.
 

tototoner

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The Guernsey Police have revealed that they are investigating four different possibilities for what happened to the plane.

They are:

1. They have landed elsewhere but not made contact.

2. They landed on water, have been picked up by a passing ship but not made contact

3. They landed on water and made it into the life raft we know was on board

4. The aircraft broke up on contact with the water, leaving them in the sea.

 

Ghost Hardware

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It’s also pretty damn depressing to think their bodies may never be found, assuming the worst has happened. Really depressing story this. As others have said, puts everything into perspective.
 

Geyzer Soze

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Madness ! So so wrong. For any human being knowingly be put on a plane that doesn't look right - to their doom.
Well. He had a choice tbf, one assumes he wasn't literally forced onto the plane. Furthermore he was a man of means, clearly, he could easily have said fuck that, skipped it and taken another route

I had a semi parallel thing recently, flew Air Zimbabwe an hour flight between Harare and Vic Falls. Air Zim is graded the worlds worst and most unsafe airline. I got on the plane and flew, my companion said fuck that, he's not getting on Air Zim and he flew another route via Joburg on South African which took 5 hours, including stop over. I made it, clearly. So did he. He excercised his choice, I took the piss out of him, obviously .... we had beer and both are still here.
 

rightwayup

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Thinking about it, I find it fairly unlikely that the club (who are already saying it wasn't them) or the player booked the flight.
 

SlotBadger

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The transcript of a WhatsApp audio message he sent out shortly before the plane disappeared is quite chilling:

"I’m here on a plane that looks like it’s about to fall apart, and I’m going to Cardiff, crazy, tomorrow we already start, and in the afternoon we start training, boys, in my new team…

"Let’s see what happens, so, how are you brothers and sisters, all right?

"If in an hour and a half you have no news from me, I don’t know if they are going to send someone to look for me because they cannot find me, but you know … Dad, how scared am I!”
Not often I get choked up but that's absolutely devastating.
 

Geyzer Soze

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Ah. It was a piper Malibu. Those dissolve like disprins at alarmingly regular intervals ….
 

Khilari

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Horrible story. Just when he thought he'd made his big breakthrough to play in the Premier League, this happens. I feel terrible for his family. RIP.
 

glacierSpurs

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Terrible news. Feel so sorry hearing details of it.

Always wondered how difficult it is to search an object as big as a plane. But until the size and depth of oceans and seas are taken into comparison, such tasks are even more difficult than finding needle in haystack..

Hope miracles exist.
 

michaelden

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His ex girlfriend posted a tweet or on Instagram saying look to the football mafia , it wasn't an accident.

It's been deleted now but there are copies of it around.

Whatever the cause it's a tragedy for his family.
 

Davo99

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It did cross my mind if it was perhaps foul play following the transfer. Just trying to make sense of it all I suppose. I did consider it as a possibility.
 

Oscar22

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The transcript of a WhatsApp audio message he sent out shortly before the plane disappeared is quite chilling:

"I’m here on a plane that looks like it’s about to fall apart, and I’m going to Cardiff, crazy, tomorrow we already start, and in the afternoon we start training, boys, in my new team…

"Let’s see what happens, so, how are you brothers and sisters, all right?

"If in an hour and a half you have no news from me, I don’t know if they are going to send someone to look for me because they cannot find me, but you know … Dad, how scared am I!”

The worst part is there’s a lot of contexts that can be applied to his message, is he saying an hour and a half because that’s how long the flight is and he fears he will never make it? Or is he aware they are on their way down and actually potentially has made it to a life raft etc and hopefully can be found in time. I’m realistic enough to know the likelihood’s but you can see how the not knowing is the worst part for the family.
 
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