Objects belonging to the two people who disappeared on Saturday during their crossing of the English Channel aboard a tourist plane were discovered on Tuesday on a beach a few kilometers from Le Touquet, we learned on Thursday from parquet.
Found at Equihen-Plage, these objects "include official documents making it possible to make a link with people to be on the plane which disappeared in British waters", indicated the prosecutor of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Guirec Le Bras, confirming information from
La Voix du Nord
.
The device had disappeared from radar 40 km off England
The plane, type P28 and registered in Great Britain, left Saturday from Wellesbourne, in the center of England, bound for the French seaside resort of Le Touquet, in Pas-de-Calais.
The aircraft flew in concert with five other passenger planes as part of a joint outing, said the prefecture of Pas-de-Calais.
Its last known position was in the middle of the English Channel, nearly 40km (21 nautical miles) off Dungeness, in the far south-east of England, according to a British Coastguard statement.
Significant French and British research resources had been deployed on Saturday and Sunday, in vain.
According to the Sunday Telegraph
newspaper
, the plane is owned by Guy Wakeley, a financial executive and instructor at the South Warwickshire Flying School.
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