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THE TEAM SEARCHING for the missing plane carrying Premier League footballer Emiliano Sala and its pilot David Ibbotson say the wreckage of the plane has been located.
The privately-funded search for the plane began today after the official search for the aircraft was called off last Thursday after an intensive hunt involving planes and boats.
Sala was travelling from Nantes in a light aircraft to join up with his new club Cardiff City on 21 January when the plane went missing close to the Channel Islands.
It vanished from radar around 20 km north of Guernsey. Suspected debris from the plane washed up on the Normandy coastline on Wednesday.
Speaking to Sky News this evening, the marine scientist leading the search David Mearns said the plane was found earlier this morning.
Mearns said the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) was informed of the find and has since been investigating.
“The plane carrying Emiliano Sala and piloted by David Ibbotson has been located. It was located earlier this morning by my crew on board the Morven and, as in agreement with the AAIB, as soon as the plane was located and the position passed to them their vessel the Geo Ocean III then moved over the wreckage and have been conducting ROV investigations,” Mearns said this evening.
The families have been notified by the AAIB and the AAIB will be making a statement tomorrow morning. This is about the best result we could have hoped for for the families, but tonight they’ve heard devastating news and in respect of the families I won’t comment any further about what has happened.
Sky News / TwitterShipwreck hunter David Mearns says that his crew have found the plane carrying missing Cardiff City player Emiliano Sala
— Sky News (@SkyNews) February 3, 2019
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The private search had been conducted on behalf of the Sala’s family after an online funding campaign raised approximately €370,000.
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“[The] sacrament is like the 3D glasses we watch movies with; love is not just between the couple themselves, but firmly united with God.”
What kind of weird, 3 way entanglement is this guy trying to badly explain?!?
Love it when celibate old men give advice on marriage.
@Stanley Marsh: you’re assuming that these old men are celibate or always have been. History suggests otherwise in many instances.
That they’re great for the action parts, but really you just wish you had gone to a 2D film on your own.
Next, they’ll need to involve Fortnite analogies in their sermons to reach out to the young generation. The old Jesus story is not selling so well anymore.
So a celibate old men “blesses” young couples in the presence of someone’s corpse with some bizarre incoherent ramblings about a god and 3D glasses. Why is this on the news? Sounds like this people need mental health professional help, not press.
3-D glasses?
One blue eye and one red?
Them 3-D glasses?
At the risk of publicly exposing an unrecognised personal obtuseness, I say: I don’t get it.
Hah?
Sometimes when the clergy get creative all they achieve is a demonstration of their crippled inner awkwardness and psychological unfitness to dictate rules of behaviour or to provide inexperienced advice to mass society.
Like the folk music cringefest introduced in the 1970s. Not a clue. So many of them are the last people to be counselling troubled souls.
This 3-D character might as well have compared marriage to a slinky, a Rubik’s cube, the four of spades, shoe polish, or windscreen wipers.
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