Sala who agreed to join Welsh club Cardiff for a club record fee of £15 million from French Ligue 1 club Nantes, was believed to be dead as the single engined Piper Malibu aircraft crashed into the sea.
Reports have it that a body has been recovered from the wreckage of the plane that was carrying Nantes and Cardiff forward Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) in Britain, which disclosed this late on Wednesday, however the identity of the body is yet to be confirmed. 28-year-old Sala had been en route from Nantes in western France on Jan. 21 to make his debut for English Premier League team Cardiff City when the plane disappeared. The plane wreckage was found on Sunday after a privately-funded underwater search of the English Channel where the plane crashed into.
The AAIB revealed in a sentence that the body was successfully recovered but every attempt to recover the aircraft wreckage proved abortive. The operation was later brought to an end due to poor weather conditions.
