London (CNN) A privately funded team on Sunday began a fresh search for the plane carrying Argentine football star Emiliano Sala that disappeared over the English Channel almost two weeks ago. The search team is led by marine scientist David Mearns -- who claims to have located 24 shipwrecks in his career -- working on behalf of the Sala family. Sala, 28, and pilot David Ibbotson, 59, were flying in a single turbine Piper Malibu plane from Nantes, in northern France, to Cardiff, in Wales, when it disappeared from radar just near the Channel Islands on January 21. Star striker Sala had recently signed with English Premier League club Cardiff City for a reported £15 million ($19.3 million) from French club Nantes. He was headed to his new club after saying farewell to his former teammates in France.

Source: CNN February 03, 2019 10:52 UTC