Missing Cardiff player feared dead

Striker sent chilling audio message from 'falling apart' plane

NANTES, France - Cardiff City's record new signing Emiliano Sala expressed concern about his plane shortly before the light aircraft disappeared over the English Channel, according to an audio message sent to friends and relatives.

The Argentine striker, signed on Saturday from French club Nantes for a reported fee of $19.3 million, was flying to the Welsh capital aboard the plane that disappeared from radar around 20 kilometers north of the island of Guernsey on Monday night.