[Football] Emiliano Sala: Missing Premier League footballer's plane found

[Garage_Doors]

......https://news.sky.com/story/emiliano...hAcSqTxH7PTLD55GaF6FYNAYI6QPFRYvLGxNPOJkmY_6E

The plane that was carrying the missing Premier League footballer Emiliano Sala has been found, his family has been told.

A search boat located the wreckage on the seabed of the English Channel this morning.

The Piper Malibu aircraft disappeared from radars close to the Channel Islands on 22 January.

Both pilot David Ibbotson and the Argentinian footballer are missing presumed dead.

 

[Garage_Doors]

Sky News correspondent Tom Parmenter, who is in Guernsey in the Channel Islands, said: "It was early this morning at about 9am, the very early stages of the search that had got underway at first light this morning... that they saw something with the sonar equipment that they had on board.

"They carried out further passes over that area to pinpoint and have a closer look.

"They went through various stages of identification through the course of today, and David Mearns confirmed to me that they have now positively identified the wreckage as that of the plane that had been carrying the Argentinian footballer."

 

[symyjym]

A primitive single engine hobbyist plane, not much difference looking in shape to a spitfire with a passenger modification in design, flying over a cold English Channel on a dark night, should never have happened.

 

[Barham's tash]

I never normally entertain tabloid journalism and the hypocrisy of the article is appalling but it really is quite damning of his ‘agent’ and the role he played in not only convincing Sala to join Cardiff but also potentially the slapdash nature of his use of this charter company in the first place.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/s...ala-pawn-sordid-transfer-shames-football.html


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[SK1NT]

Body seen in wreckage https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-47118340

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

bloody tragic this

it was 60 years ago yesterday that Buddy Holly died
another unecessary tragedy

 

[GT49er]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/s...ala-pawn-sordid-transfer-shames-football.html

What a bunch of money-grabbing vultures. Horrible people. One of the reasons my love of football isn't quite what it was 40 or 50 years ago.

 

[symyjym]

Has anyone seen this video? It raises more questions than it answers.

https://youtu.be/HA8DIowfwl0

 

[Springal]

Has anyone seen this video? It raises more questions than it answers.

https://youtu.be/HA8DIowfwl0

Not really. Just look at his sisters initial comments and then those involved..

 

[symyjym]

Not really. Just look at his sisters initial comments and then those involved..

I haven't been following the details closely tbh so I have no idea about what the people involved have said. The fact that he personally wasn't confident in the plane is news to me though.

 

[banjo]

One of the bodies recovered. Not named yet though. Very sad.

 

[vegster]

Very sad indeed, and not helped by Nantes wanting their first installment on the transfer fee.

 

[symyjym]

Very sad indeed, and not helped by Nantes wanting their first installment on the transfer fee.

I suppose they have to, to start the insurance ball rolling.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

One of the bodies recovered. Not named yet though. Very sad.

I don't quite understand....maybe it is football, and the thought of what it would be if one of ours.....but every time I see a picture of his little face I well up.

 

[pornomagboy]

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/fo...t-a4060756.html?amp&__twitter_impression=true

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[Durlston]

I would imagine identification will be made easier by Emiliano Sala's tattoos on his right arm (if they haven't been almost washed away by the sea salt water). Of course, the pilot may have also had tattoos but it's unlikely.

Such a tragic and bleak task having to identify the body.

 

[Driver8]

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/fo...t-a4060756.html?amp&__twitter_impression=true

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Tasteful advertising whilst I was reading that article.

 

[Garage_Doors]

Body recovered been confirmed that it is Sala

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-47166633

 

[Puppet Master]

How sad But closure at least for his family

 

[Garage_Doors]

They have been no reports on the pilot as if he has not been found.