Horacio Sala, father of Cardiff City forward Emiliano Sala, has passed away earlier on Friday.
The 58 years-old died of a heart attack in his bed.
The news about his died was made known to the public by his friend and mayor of Progreso Julio Muller.
In an interview with La Red radio station, Muller said:
2019 doesn’t let up in shocking us with news in this town,
At 5 o’clock in the morning, the lady, his wife, rang me and she was very upset.
The doctors were there but when I arrived at their home, he had already died.
He could never overcome what happened to Emiliano.
When the body was found he thought the case would be closed – but all the news that came to light about the pilot was very difficult.
You may recall that Emiliano Sala was traveling to Cardiff from Nantes with pilot David Ibbotson when their jet went missing from radar near Guernsey.
Sala’s body was seen in the wreckage of a plane which crashed in the English Channel.
