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 km from Le Touquet (Pas-de-Calais), it was reported. learned Thursday, April 7 from the prosecution.
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Found at Equihen-Plage, these objects “
included official documents making it possible to make a link with people who must have been on the plane which disappeared in British waters
“, told AFP the prosecutor of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Guirec Le Bras, confirming information from the Voix du Nord.
The aircraft, type P28 and registered in Great Britain, left Saturday from Wellesbourne (central England) to the French seaside resort of Le Touquet, according to the maritime prefecture.
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 belongs to Guy Wakeley, a financial executive and instructor at the South Warwickshire Flying School.
The latter presents him on its website as the non-executive director of the investment company HgCapital Trust and the director of the financial services company Equiniti, which had a manager of this name until 2021.
