Fears grow for missing Britons

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As the search continued for Alan Kempson, Nigel Hodges, Sean Woodall and Ricky Every, friends and family based in the UK and abroad waited desperately for news.

Mr Kempson and Mr Hodges are both directors of a finance company called Diamond Lifestyle Holdings, based in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

Non-executive chairman Paul Hughes said: "All we know is that the plane is missing. I am obviously very worried and my thoughts are with their wives and families."

Mr Hughes said he has worked with Diamond chief executive Mr Kempson, who is 46 and lives in Spain, and finance director and company secretary Mr Hodges, who is 52 and lives in Somerset, for almost two years and they have become friends as well as colleagues.

The Foreign Office confirmed on Saturday that the four Britons were on board the plane when it vanished off the north-eastern coast, along with two pilots.

According to reports, they are involved in the tourist property industry and were looking at hotels and apartments in Brazil's tropical Bahia region.

The search was launched after the twin-engine Cessna 310 in which they were travelling lost contact with air-traffic controllers minutes before it was due to land in the coastal city of Ilheus on Friday night.

A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "I can confirm that there were four passengers, all four of whom were British, and two pilots."

The spokeswoman added that next of kin had been informed, and that no other details about the men were available. It is understood that three of the four do not live in the UK.