The police has confirmed that Argentine player, Emiliano Sala's body was recovered from a plane in the English Channel. The announcement was made on Thursday evening after a coroner's examination of the body, which was recovered from the seabed wreckage of the plane on Wednesday.
Though ivestigators have not been able to recover the aircraft after an initial search and rescue operation failed , however Dorset police confirmed that Sala's body was recovered from the plane wreckage.
"The body brought to Portland Port today has been formally identified by HM Coroner for Dorset as that of professional footballer Emiliano Sala," Dorset Police said in a statement.
Recall that the Piper Malibu aircraft disappeared with Sala and pilot David Ibbotson on board on January 21 , with the 28-year-old en route to Cardiff from having completed a club-record transfer from Ligue 1 side Nantes.