SHOWS: IN AIR (JANUARY 23, 2019) (UK POOL - ACCESS ALL) 1.

AERIAL OF CHANNEL IN THE SEARCH AREA 2.

SMALL ISLANDA 3.

LIGHTHOUSE ON ISLAND 4.

LOW FLYING PLANE MAKING TURN IN SEARCH AREA 5.

PLANE/ SEARCH AREA 6.

AERIAL OF ALDERNEY STORY: Hopes of finding soccer star Emiliano Sala alive were fading on Wednesday (January 23), as a recording emerged of a fearful voice message he apparently sent from his stricken plane before it disappeared over the English Channel.

Search teams were reviewing satellite imagery and mobile phone data as four aircraft scoured seas off the channel island of Alderney, where unidentified debris was earlier spotted.

But with Cardiff City-bound Sala and his pilot already missing for 40 hours, rescuers said chances of finding either of them alive were almost vanishingly slim.