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| Emiliano Sala |
The
plane carrying the missing Cardiff striker Emiliano Sala has been found and his
family has been informed about the discovery..
A search boat located the wreckage on the
seabed of the English Channel at 9am on Sunday, following a search led by David
Mearns, a marine explorer who has been working alongside the Air Accidents
Investigation Branch (AAIB).
The plane carrying Cardiff's January signing Sala and pilot
David Ibbotson disappeared while flying over the English Channel on
January 21.
Guernsey Police stopped looking for Sala and
Ibbotson three days later, with officials saying the chance of them being alive
was extremely unlikely.
A privately-funded search for the plane
subsequently began after a GoFundMe page was started. The team had reduced
their search area to just four square miles, with the plane eventually found 24
miles north of Guernsey, after the search had resumed at first light on Sunday.
Sala had joined Cardiff for a club-record fee from French
side Nantes on January 19 and Cardiff paid tribute to Sala ahead
of Saturday's match with Bournemouth, the first they had played at home since
the plane went missing.
"The wreckage of the plane carrying Emiliano Sala and piloted by
David Ibbotson has been located," Mearns told Sky News.
"It was located earlier this morning by
my crew on board the Morven and, as in agreement with the AAIB as soon as the
plane was located and the position was passed to them their vessel, the GO
Ocean 3, then moved in over the wreckage and have been conducting ROV (remotely
operated vehicle) investigations.
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