The plane that was carrying the missing Cardiff striker Emiliano Sala has been found and his family has been told of 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.

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 started after a GoFundMe page was started and they have now located the missing plane.

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.

Cardiff paid tribute to Sala ahead of Saturday's match with Bournemouth, the first they had played at home since the plane went missing.


(From Skysports)