Emiliano Sala's devastated family and fellow football stars pay tribute as his body is pulled out from the plane wreckage
The devastated family of footballer Emiliano Sala paid tribute to the Argentinian after it was confirmed that the body recovered from the submerged plain wreck was his. Investigators recovered a body on Wednesday from the wreckage of an 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 Sunday after it disappeared from radar over the English Channel on January 21. The plane was carrying the 28-year-old Argentinian football star from Nantes in France to Cardiff after his £15m move to Cardiff City and was being piloted by 59-year-old David Ibbotson. Police officials on Thursday night announced that the body recovered from the light aircraft wreckage, which is still on the seabed off the coast of France, is that of the Argentinean striker, the Daily Mail reported.