Police to decide on Thursday whether to keep searching, as pilot is named as Dave Ibbotson
Rescuers fear that there is little hope of finding the footballer Emiliano Sala and an experienced pilot alive after their light aircraft went missing over the Channel Islands.
The search for the new Cardiff City striker Sala and the pilot, who has been named as Dave Ibbotson from Lincolnshire, was postponed as darkness fell on Guernsey on Wednesday. A decision on whether to resume the search would be made early on Thursday, police said. It is understood that a French navy vessel had been directed to the area to assist.
Sala and Ibbotson landed elsewhere but have not made contact.
They landed on water and have been picked up by a passing ship but have not made contact.
They landed on water and made it into a life raft police know was onboard.
The aircraft broke up on contact with the water, leaving them in the sea.
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