Sala was thrilled to be joining a team in the Premier League PRESSE SPORTS/OFFSIDEThe search for the missing plane carrying the footballer Emiliano Sala and his British pilot was called off this afternoon after rescue teams failed to find “any trace” of the aircraft. Captain David Barker, Guernsey’s harbour master, said that the chances that Sala, 28, and David Ibbotson, 59, had survived were “extremely remote”. The aircraft has been missing since it disappeared from radar screens over the Channel on Monday night. Mr Ibbotson, a gas engineer from Lincolnshire whose main flying activity was taking parachutists for jumps, had told friends, that he was “a bit rusty” days before the 35 year-old aircraft vanished. David Ibbotson told a friend that he was “a bit rusty” with instruments on the Piper PA-46 MalibuHe had admitted struggling with the instruments on the Piper PA-46 Malibu after a flight from Cardiff airport to Nantes, western France, on…

Source: The Times January 24, 2019 17:03 UTC