“We can now begin to mourn our son and our brother,” the Cardiff City striker’s family said in a statement. The Premier League player’s former French club, Nantes, said it was retiring the jersey with Sala’s number 9 on it. Investigators said they were abandoning plans to lift the plane wreckage out of the water because of bad weather. “When something like this happens it brings all the football family together,” he said. The plane wreckage was spotted by a ship hired by the family.

Source: The Guardian February 08, 2019 13:30 UTC