Plane is free if you help score goals
Texts that put football club’s new star on doomed flight We will find Emiliano. We feel he’s still out there. He’s a fighter
island Alderney on Monday night with some flights to get to Nantes tomorrow.” now helped raise more than £208,000 pilot David Ibbotson, 59, and the player Days later the footballer sent a to pay for a private search. on board. Whatsapp message to friends as he sat Emiliano’s family have praised the MISSING footballer Emiliano Berenice said: “Emiliano and the pilot on the doomed aircraft – not owned by support of stars such as Lionel Messi Sala tried to book a commercial have to be alive in Jersey or Guernsey. the Mckay family – during the return and Sergio Aguero for calling for the
We ask all UK and Welsh authorities flight to Cardiff, joking it “looks like it’s rescue mission to carry on. flight home from his new club
and those in France to keep looking. A going to fall apart”. Speaking at the Cardiff City before changing his plans to go
plane with two people cannot disappear. Reports suggest t Mr Stadium, Stadium the player’s tearful by private plane – for free. I think we would have liked to start a Ibbotson tried to take ake sister Romina said: “We are
Texts revealed yesterday show fellow family. I can’t think that he is gone.” off from Nantes airport ort thankful tha for the support Cardiff City striker Jack Mckay told the Emiliano was looking at flights back four times before gettof all the players in the
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Argentine star his soccer agent dad to France after signing for Cardiff ting airborne. way they have said we Willie could arrange a direct flight back last weekend when a text from Jack should not stop our to France for him. popped up. efforts.
When Emiliano, 28, asked “How It said: “My dad has told me you are “We will f i nd much will it cost?” Jack, 22, replied: going home to tomorrow. He Emiliano and the “Nothing. He [dad] said if you help could organ organise a plane to p pilot. He is a fighter me to score goals it’s nothing.” take you di direct to Nantes a and we feel he is still
The tragic messages emerged and to co come back on ou out there.” as the player’s on- off model Monday, at a time that Willie Mckay said in girlfriend Berenice suits you, so you can get a sta statement: “We had no Schkair, 27, begged to tr t r a i ni ng on involvement in selecting a plane or authorities to Tues Tuesday.” a pilot and we do not own the plane restart t he E Eight minutes Emiliano flew on. search for the la later Sala re“As the text messages show, Emiliano Piper Malibu pl plied: “Ah that was not asked for payment for the flight. aircraft is great. I was “The Mckay family would like to offer which disapju just in the midour sincere support to the Sala family,” peared near d dle of checking he added.
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The plane climbed to 5,000ft but l ater asked Jersey air traffic con- trol for permission to drop to 2,300ft. It vanished at 8.30pm over er the Channel. Three planes es and five helicopters spent a combined 80 hours flying time in the search, working with two lifeboats and other passing ships.
Guernsey’s harbour master said a “difficult” decision was made to call off the search on Thursday, because the chances of survival were “extremely remote”. But fellow footballers have