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The Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) confirmed that a person is visible in the video footage of the wreckage of the plane that was carrying Emiliano Sala.
Sala and pilot David Ibbotson were the only people aboard the plane to disappear on 21 January between Nantes and Cardiff, after the 28-year-old had said goodbye to his former teammates after completing a transfer of £ 15 million. to Neil Warnock's team.
The initial hunt for the plane was canceled later in the week, but it resumed when thousands of people made a donation to a GoFundMe page created to raise more than € 370,000 to fund a sub-search. Marine.
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After the flight seat cushions were stranded on a beach in France last week, the plane was found in the English Channel on Sunday.
And the AAIB confirmed the next day that a body had been spotted in the first video footage.
"At the beginning of the search, the Morven identified an object of interest on the seabed using its side scan sonar equipment," reads a statement. "He cleared the immediate area allowing the Geo Ocean III to use its submarine remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to monitor the area of the seabed in which the object was located. badysis of a video sequence of the ROV, the investigators of the AAIB aboard the ship concluded that the object was the wreckage of the missing aircraft Piper Malibu, registered N264DB .
"The ROV conducted a new search of the area during the night, but did not identify any additional wreckage.
"Tragically, in the video footage of the ROV, an occupant is visible in the middle of the wreckage." The AAIB is now considering the next steps, in consultation with the pilot and pbadenger families, and the police.
"The picture shows the left rear side of the fuselage, including a part of the aircraft registration.
"We intend to issue an interim report in the month following the accident."
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