Find the wreck of Emiliano Sala's plane

The wreck of the small plane from Cardiff City, Argentine Emiliano Sala, lost last week, was found on the English Channel.

The plane, a Malibu Piper and his registration number N264DBWas lost on January 21 as she was traveling from Nantes to Cardiff, Wales. Sala and pilot David Ibotson were on board.

The probe is expected to send a small submarine to the bottom of the Channel, which separates Britain from France, to inspect the debris later on Monday.

David Mernes, who is leading a non-governmental funding effort to search for the missing aircraft, said the wreckage had been found near the island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands.

"All I can say is that a large amount of debris is in the bottom of the sea," he said.

"We found the debris from the plane at the bottom of the sea at a depth of 63 meters, after two hours of searching," said Mernes, who was speaking Monday morning for the show " Today "from the BBC.

He added that the team was able to identify the presence of debris using sound waves, before sending a submarine with cameras to the bottom of the sea to ensure that the debris belonged to the plane already lost .

"The registration number of the aircraft was seen and the big surprise was that most of it was there," he said.

He has now completed his own mission and headed the British Aviation Accident Investigation Branch. AAIB Mission to recover the wreck.

Mernes says AAIB We will continue to research the best ways to complete the debris recovery process over the next two days.

"The police surrounded my family, Emiliano Sala and David Ebotsson, with a knowledge of the subject," said Marines, a scientist specializing in marine science, in a series of tweets published Sunday.

"Our feelings are with my family, Emiliano and David."

"I can not understand what happened, it's a nightmare and I'm desperate and jealous," said Sala's father, Horacio, to the Argentine television channel Cronica.

Mernes said that he was in contact with the Sala family after the discovery of the wreck and that it was "anxious to recover the debris." The family members believe that the debris recovery is the way by which they can get the answers they want. "

He stated that he felt the need to participate in the search for debris after seeing a request to arouse emotions in the sister of the player, Romina.

"I felt that this girl needed help, so I was ready to help," he said.

"I'm a football fan, Cardiff is not my city, but I'm football, I sympathized with her, I wanted to help her, I'm an experienced person and I can do it. "

"Emiliano was a young man, so it's very sad," he said.

Cardiff had bought Sala for 15 million pounds, a record for the Welsh club.

Sala, 28, and the Abutson pilot, 59, were on a light flight from Nantes, where Argentinian was playing, bound for Cardiff, when he lost contact with the air traffic control system .

An official search was suspended on Jan. 24 after the Guernsey main port official decided that the probability of survival for the passengers was "very low".

Last week, seats supposed to belong to the missing plane were found on a coast near the south-east of France.