Josette Bernard, via Associated Press
LONDON — The wreckage of the small plane carrying the Argentine soccer striker Emiliano Sala and his pilot, David Ibbotson, has been found in the English Channel, a shipwreck hunter said on Sunday, days after parts of the aircraft’s seat cushions were discovered on a French beach.
“The families of Emiliano Sala and David Ibbotson have been notified by police,” David Mearns, a maritime scientist whose team led the private search for the Piper Malibu plane, said on Twitter.
The single-engine, propeller-driven aircraft disappeared over the English Channel after departing Nantes, a city in western France, at 8:15 p.