The Next Edition
  • Home
  • About Us
  • News
  • Featured
  • Investigations
  • Foreign
  • Special Reports
  • Entertainment
  • Interviews
  • Advert Rate
No Result
View All Result
The Next Edition
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • About Us
  • News
  • Featured
  • Investigations
  • Foreign
  • Special Reports
  • Entertainment
  • Interviews
  • Advert Rate
Home Top News

Body from plane wreckage identified as footballer Sala, UK police say

Next Edition by Next Edition
February 8, 2019
in Top News
Body from plane wreckage identified as footballer Sala, UK police say

Emiliano Sala

0
SHARES
31
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Whatsapp

A body retrieved from the wreckage of a crashed plane in the English Channel has been formally identified as Cardiff City’s Argentina-born football player Emiliano Sala, British police said on Thursday.

Sala, 28, had been flying from his previous club Nantes in western France to Wales on Jan. 21.

You might also like

FMC Abuja’s 1st Living-Donor Kidney Transplant Successful

FG Clears Two Million Households For Cash Transfer

Lagos Begins Enforcement Of Ban On Single-User Plastics July 1

He was going to make his debut for the English Premier League club when the single-engined Piper Malibu aircraft disappeared over the sea.

Wreckage was found on Sunday following a privately-funded underwater search and a body recovered on Wednesday and taken to southern England.

“The body brought to Portland Port today (Thursday)… has been formally identified by HM Coroner for Dorset as that of professional footballer Emiliano Sala,” the police statement said.

“The families of Mr Sala and the pilot David Ibbotson have been updated with this news and will continue to be supported by specially-trained family liaison officers. Our thoughts remain with them at this difficult time.”

Cardiff posted the statement on their website under a picture of the player.

“We offer our most heartfelt sympathies and condolences to the family of Emiliano. He and David will forever remain in our thoughts,” the Welsh club said.

Sala had agreed to join relegation-threatened Cardiff for a club record fee of 15 million pounds ($19.43 million) from French Ligue 1 club Nantes.

READ ALSO: SPORTS FLAKES: ABIGAIL : WOMAN WHO KNOCKED OUT DICK TIGER

He had played in France since 2012 and scored 12 goals for Nantes this season.

Police said an investigation into the circumstances of the death was continuing.

Efforts to recover the aircraft wreckage have so far been unsuccessful due to poor weather conditions.

The plane had been cruising at 5,000 feet (1,525 m) when the pilot requested to descend to a lower altitude on passing Guernsey.

It then lost radar contact at 2,300 feet.

Argentine newspaper Clarin last month published a voice message that Sala apparently sent to friends while in the air.

“We’re up in the plane and it seems it’s about to crash,” said the message, which Clarin said was verified by Sala’s father, Horacio Sala.

“If you have not heard anything from me in an hour and a half, I don’t know if they’re going to send someone to find me, because, you know, they’re not going to be able to,” the message said. “Dad, I’m really scared.”

NAN

Tags: British PoliceEmiliano Salaplane wreckage
Next Edition

Next Edition

Recommended For You

FMC Abuja’s 1st Living-Donor Kidney Transplant Successful

FMC Abuja’s 1st Living-Donor Kidney Transplant Successful

  The Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Abuja, has successfully performed its first living-donor kidney transplant. Living-donor kidney transplant usually involves a donated kidney from someone the recipient knows....

Conditional Cash Transfer: 283,003 Lagos Residents To Receive N25,000 From FG

FG Clears Two Million Households For Cash Transfer

The Federal Government has initiated a revalidation exercise for the National Social Register as part of its ongoing efforts to enhance the effectiveness of the conditional cash transfer...

Lagos Reads Riot Acts To Operators Of Events Centres

Lagos Begins Enforcement Of Ban On Single-User Plastics July 1

Lagos State Government will begin enforcement of ban on single-use plastics from July 1, 2025. This was disclosed in a terse post issued on X by the Commissioner...

New Police

Police Arrest Fake EFCC Operatives For Abducting Students In Niger

The Niger State Police Command has arrested three suspects impersonating operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for abducting and extorting students in Lapai. The suspects,...

Next Post
SDP adopts Buhari as consensus candidate, dumps Donald Duke

SDP adopts Buhari as consensus candidate, dumps Donald Duke




Related News

Widow Seeks Justice For Daughter Hit By Police Stray Bullet

Police Rescue 100 Kidnapped Victims In Zamfara

SPECIAL INTERVIEW: Nigerians are Responsible for Failure of Governments - Ayo Obe (Part 1)

SPECIAL INTERVIEW: Nigerians are Responsible for Failure of Governments – Ayo Obe (Part 1)

JUST IN: TUFACE: Annie Idibia Reportedly In Rehab…(Details)

JUST IN: TUFACE: Annie Idibia Reportedly In Rehab…(Details)




The Next Edition

Office Address

3B, Agboola Aina street, Off Toyin Street,
Ikeja, Lagos.

Quick Contact Details

Phone:
08033018430
Whatsapp:
08051679910

Email:
[email protected]
[email protected]

Categories

  • Aviation
  • Beauty
  • Breaking News
  • Business
  • Columnists
  • Editorial
  • Entertainment
  • Fashion
  • Featured
  • Football
  • Foreign
  • Headline News
  • Home & Garden
  • Interviews
  • Investigations
  • North Central
  • North East
  • North West
  • Opinion
  • Parenting
  • Politics
  • Relationships
  • South East
  • South West
  • South-South
  • Special Reports
  • Sports
  • Top News
  • Vox Pops

© Next Edition Business Development Limited

  • About Us
  • Advert Rate
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • About Us
  • News
  • Featured
  • Investigations
  • Foreign
  • Special Reports
  • Entertainment
  • Interviews
  • Advert Rate

© Next Edition Business Development Limited