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08:47, 04-Feb-2019
Missing Premier League footballer Sala's plane found on seabed in English Channel
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The missing plane carrying Argentinian footballer Emiliano Sala and his pilot has been found, investigators confirmed on Sunday.
"I can confirm it has been found," a spokeswoman for Britain's Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said.
She said the AAIB would issue a statement on Monday.
Sala was traveling from France to join up with his new club, Premier League side Cardiff City, in a light aircraft on January 21 when it went missing close to the Channel Islands.
Suspected debris from the plane washed up on the Normandy coastline in France last Wednesday.
Sala was flying in the Piper PA-46 Malibu plane after transferring from French team Nantes in a 19.3 million U.S. dollar move.
It vanished from radar around 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Guernsey, with pilot Dave Ibbotson the only other person aboard.
David Mearns, whose private company, Blue Water Recoveries, was hired by Sala's family to search for the plane, said on Twitter that the wreck was spotted early Sunday.
Source(s): AFP