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		</div><p>Argentina’s president has added to pressure for rescuers to continue the search for the plane carrying Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala.</p>
<p>Mauricio Macri has told his foreign minister to issue formal requests to Britain and France for search efforts to be resumed, according to a statement from the premier’s office on Friday.</p>
<p>The search for the Piper PA-46 Malibu carrying the Argentine striker, 28, and pilot David Ibbotson was called off on Thursday.</p>
<p>The aircraft disappeared from radar over the English Channel on Monday night.</p>
<p>In a statement, the president’s office said: <em>“President Mauricio Macri instructed foreign minister Jorge Faurie to make a formal request to the governments of Great Britain and France to ask them to maintain the search efforts.”</em></p>
<p>Mr Faurie is expected to make the request to both nations’ embassies.</p>
<p>Sala’s sister Romina Sala has also urged rescuers to resume the search, as have Argentinian football stars Lionel Messi, Diego Maradona and Sergio Aguero.</p>
<p>The Sala family is also planning to organize a private search with hired divers, according to Argentinian media outlet Ole.</p>
<p>Donations from footballers including Manchester City’s Ilkay Gundogan helped a GoFundMe page raising money for the search to rapidly surpass £60,000.</p>
<p>Guernsey’s harbour master Captain David Barker said the decision to stop actively searching had been a “difficult” one, but the chances of survival after such a long period are “extremely remote”.</p>
<p>Mr Barker acknowledged the footballer’s family are “not content” with the decision but said he is “absolutely confident” no more could have been done.</p>
<p>Romina Sala, joined by her partner Juan Miaz and cousin Maria Sottini, viewed tributes outside Cardiff’s stadium on Friday.</p>
<p>Club chief executive Ken Choo said Sala’s mother and brother will soon join other family members in South Wales.</p>
<p>Mr Choo said the mood at the club is “sombre” and “flat”, but it is “fully supporting” the Sala family’s wishes to have information on the incident.</p>
<p>More than 60,000 people have signed an online petition demanding the search for the missing aircraft continues.</p>
<p>Mr Choo said the club has also informed authorities it wants the search restarted.</p>
<p>He reiterated the club had not organized Sala’s travel arrangements as it did not have “jurisdiction” over the new signing at the time of the flight.</p>
<p>He described Sala as a “humble man” and a “hero” who was “really looking forward… to joining Cardiff City”.</p>
<p>It could take six months to a year for investigators to collate information on what happened to the plane, Mr Choo claimed.</p>
<p>His comments came after it emerged accident investigators will examine whether the pilot had the correct license.</p>
<p>The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) opened a probe after the light aircraft disappeared from radar on Monday night.</p>
<p>“We are looking at all operational aspects of the flight, including licensing,” an AAIB spokesman said.</p>
<p>Mr Ibbotson, 59, of Crowle, Lincolnshire, held a private pilot’s license and passed a medical exam as recently as November, according to Federal Aviation Administration records.</p>
<p>The Civil Aviation Authority said the aircraft was registered in the US, so fell under American regulations.</p>
<p>US law states private pilots cannot make a profit by carrying passengers.</p>
<p>The flight left Nantes in France for Cardiff at 7.15pm on Monday, and after requesting to descend, lost contact with Jersey air traffic control over the English Channel.</p>
<p>Cardiff City had signed Sala for a club record £15 million to bolster their attack and he was due to start training on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Rescue teams scanned around 1,700 square miles and examined mobile phone data and satellite imagery but found no trace of the aircraft.</p>
<p>Three planes and five helicopters racked up 80 hours’ combined flying time looking for the plane, working alongside two lifeboats and other passing ships.</p>
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