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		</div><p>A privately-funded search for the plane that was carrying missing Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala is set to begin on Sunday morning.</p>
<p>Marine scientist David Mearns, who is directing the privately-funded enterprise on behalf of the Sala family, said: “Tomorrow the weather will be good. We will be able to operate tomorrow.”</p>
<p>The Piper Malibu N264DB carrying 28-year-old Sala and pilot David Ibbotson, 59, disappeared over the English Channel on January 21 after leaving Nantes in France for Cardiff.</p>
<p>Blue Water Recoveries director Mr Mearns, who claims to have located 24 major shipwrecks during his career, said he would be leading a team of seven other people on the vessel FPV Morven and it would be operating around the clock.</p>
<p>He said the the search is being carried out “in close co-ordination” with the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB). There will be two vessels, including one commissioned by the AAIB, searching an area of around four square nautical miles north of Guernsey.</p>
<p>Mr Mearns said the AAIB has a “high confidence level” the plane could be in that zone but it could have moved once on the seabed.</p>
<p>The plane had requested to descend then lost contact with Jersey air traffic control.</p>
<p>An official search operation was called off on January 24 as Guernsey’s harbor master Captain David Barker said the chances of survival after such a long period are “extremely remote”.</p>
<p>Two seat cushions, which are likely to have come from the plane, were found earlier this week.</p>
<p>The AAIB was advised by its French counterparts on Monday that part of a cushion was found on a beach near Surtainville on the Cotentin Peninsula.</p>
<p>A second cushion was found in the same area later that day.</p>
<p>Cardiff had signed the Argentinian striker for a club record £15 million and he was due to start training last month.</p>
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