Emiliano Sala died from injuries to "head and trunk" after plane crash in English Channel, inquest reveals
Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala died from injuries to head and trunk following the crash of his plane in the English Channel, an inquest heard on Monday after his body was identified by his fingerprints last week.
Sala's devastated family paid tribute to the Argentinian last week after it was confirmed that the body recovered from the submerged plain wreck was his. Investigators recovered the footballer's body on Wednesday from the wreckage of the aircraft that had crashed into the English Channel with Sala and pilot David Ibbotson on board.
The plane's wreckage and a body inside it was spotted nearly two weeks after the aircraft's disappearance. The Piper Malibu plane was found by a privately-funded search crew on February 3 after it disappeared from radar over the English Channel on January 21.