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UK agency: Sala’s pilot unlicensed for plane in fatal crash

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Cardiff appeals to CAS to overturn FIFA order in Sala case

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FIFA verdict in Sala case warns of Cardiff transfer ban

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FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019 file photo, Nantes soccer team supporters stand by a poster of Argentinian player Emiliano Sala and reading &quot;Let's keep hope&quot; outside La Beaujoire stadium in Nantes, western France. FIFA says Cardiff must pay 6 million euros ($6.5 million) to Nantes as a first installment of the transfer fee for Emiliano Sala, agreed in January before he died in an airplane crash. FIFA says on Monday, Sept. 30 its players’ status panel “never lost sight of the specific and unique circumstances of this tragic situation” in the dispute between the two clubs. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, file)

Cardiff to appeal to CAS against FIFA ruling on Sala

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In this image released Monday Feb. 4, 2019, by the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) showing the rear left side of the fuselage including part of the aircraft registration N264DB, in the English Channel after it went missing carrying Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala on Jan. 21 2019. The AAIB said Wednesday Aug. 14, 2019, that toxicology tests found that Sala and his pilot were exposed to dangerous levels of carbon monoxide inside the small plane that crashed in the English Channel, killing them both. (AAIB File via AP)

Soccer star Sala exposed to harmful carbon monoxide in plane

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People leave flowers on Emiliano Sala's coffin at the cemetery in Santa Fe, Argentina, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019. The Argentina-born forward died in an airplane crash in the English Channel last month when flying from Nantes in France to start his new career with English Premier League club Cardiff. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Sala crash report says plane not licensed for commercial use

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

Mercedes Taffarel, mother of Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala, right, is comfort by Nantes defender Nicolas Pallois during de burial of Emiliano Sala, at the cemetery in Santa Fe, Argentina, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019. The Argentina-born forward died in an airplane crash in the English Channel last month when flying from Nantes in France to start his new career with English Premier League club Cardiff. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Emotional funeral for Sala held in his Argentine hometown

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FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 14, 2018 file photo Nantes' forward Emiliano Sala makes a tackle during a French League One soccer match, in Nantes, western France. The Argentine forward, who scored his last goal for Nantes on Dec. 5 in a 3-2 win over Marseille, was killed in a plane crash last month and his body was recovered from the wreckage on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019 authorities said. (AP Photo/David Vincent, File)

Nantes fans say final goodbye to Sala on day of mourning

By JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, file photo, a Nantes soccer team supporters stops by a poster of Argentinian player Emiliano Sala and reading &quot;Let's keep hope&quot; outside La Beaujoire stadium before the French soccer League One match Nantes against Saint-Etienne, in Nantes, western France. On Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019, the man leading a private search for the missing plane carrying Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala says the wreckage has been found. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

French league honors Sala, Nantes retires his No 9 jersey

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FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, file photo, a Nantes soccer team supporters stops by a poster of Argentinian player Emiliano Sala and reading &quot;Let's keep hope&quot; outside La Beaujoire stadium before the French soccer League One match Nantes against Saint-Etienne, in Nantes, western France. On Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019, the man leading a private search for the missing plane carrying Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala says the wreckage has been found. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Sala’s last goal and last assist typified him as a player

By JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press

A van stands by the Geo Ocean III specialist search vessel docked in Portland, England, which is carrying a body recovered from the wreckage of the plane carrying Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson, Thursday Feb. 7, 2019. The aircraft remains 67 metres underwater 21 miles off the coast of Guernsey in the English Channel as poor weather conditions stopped recovery efforts. (Steve Parsons/PA via AP)

Police confirm Sala’s body recovered from plane wreckage

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, file photo, a Nantes soccer team supporters stops by a poster of Argentinian player Emiliano Sala and reading &quot;Let's keep hope&quot; outside La Beaujoire stadium before the French soccer League One match Nantes against Saint-Etienne, in Nantes, western France. On Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019, the man leading a private search for the missing plane carrying Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala says the wreckage has been found. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Man leading search for Sala’s plane says wreckage found

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

A view of the match day programme with an image of Emiliano Sala on the cover, ahead of the English Premier League soccer match between Cardiff and Bournemouth at the Cardiff City Stadium, in Cardiff, Wales, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. (Mark Kerton/PA via AP)

Man leading search for Sala’s plane says wreckage found

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

A giant canvas showing Argentinian player Emiliano Sala is pictured in La Beaujoire stadium before the French soccer League One match Nantes against Saint-Etienne, in Nantes, western France, Wednesday, Jan.30, 2019. Sala disappeared over the English Channel on Jan. 21, 2019 as it flew from France to Wales. Sala had just been signed by Premier League club Cardiff. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Nantes fans chant non-stop in emotional tribute to Sala

By JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press

Emiliano Sala's mother Mercedes, left and sister Romina right, arrive back at Guernsey airport after taking a flight to view the area of the English Channel in which the missing footballers plane was last seen, in Gurernsey, England, Monday, Jan. 28, 2019. Authorities said on Thursday they were no longer searching for the plane after a three-day air-and-sea operation near the Channel Islands failed to locate the aircraft, Argentine striker Sala or pilot David Ibbotson. A private search organised by the family has begun. (Joe Giddens/PA via AP)

Underwater search for plane to begin in Channel this weekend

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Flowers and tributes are placed near a giant picture of Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala outside the FC Nantes training camp, in Nantes, western France, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019, after a plane with Sala on board went missing over the English Channel on Monday night. Sobbing after the active search for her brother was halted, the sister of Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala urged authorities Thursday not to give up trying to find the remains of his plane that disappeared from radar over the English Channel. (AP Photo)

Nantes coach livid at decision to call off search for plane

By JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press

Flowers and tributes are placed outside Cardiff City Football Club, Wales, Wednesday Jan. 23, 2019, after a plane with new signing Emiliano Sala on board went missing over the English Channel on Monday night. The search resumed Wednesday to find missing Emiliano Sala and his pilot with authorities in the Channel Islands prioritizing whether they have been unable to make contact after more than 36 hours having managed to land, been picked up by a ship or are still on a lifeboat. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)

Emiliano Sala earned respect through hard work, team ethic

By JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press

In this his picture taken on Jan. 14, 2018, Argentine soccer player, Emiliano Sala, of the FC Nantes club, western France, gives a thumbs up during a soccer match against PSG in Nantes, France. The French civil aviation authority says Emiliano Sala was aboard a small passenger plane that went missing off the coast of the island of Guernsey. (AP Photo/David Vincent)

Search ends for plane, angering soccer player Sala’s family

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 file photo, Caen's forward Emiliano Sala celebrates scoring against Marseille during the League One soccer match between Marseille and Caen, at the Velodrome Stadium, in Marseille, southern France. The French civil aviation authority said Tuesday Jan. 22, 2019, Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala was aboard a small passenger plane that went missing off the coast of the island of Guernsey. French and British maritime authorities are searching the English Channel for the plane. (AP Photo/Claude Paris, File)

Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala aboard missing plane

By ANGELA CHARLTON and ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 file photo, Caen's forward Emiliano Sala celebrates scoring against Marseille during the League One soccer match between Marseille and Caen, at the Velodrome Stadium, in Marseille, southern France. The French civil aviation authority said Tuesday Jan. 22, 2019, Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala was aboard a small passenger plane that went missing off the coast of the island of Guernsey. French and British maritime authorities are searching the English Channel for the plane. (AP Photo/Claude Paris, File)

The Latest: Sala’s father ‘beginning to think the worst’

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