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Cardiff City owner Vincent Tan has made a personal donation of £50,000 to the fund to resume search efforts for missing pilot David Ibbotson.

Mr Ibbotson and Emiliano Sala were flying in the same plane which vanished from radar near the Channel Islands on January 21, before its wreckage was found at the bottom of the seabed last weekened.

Sala's body was recovered and formally identified last week, but Mr Ibbotson, from Lincolnshire, remains unaccounted for.

His family have appealed for help to try and resume search efforts to "bring him home", with a GoFundMe page raising more than £170,000 in four days.

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Now, Cardiff City owner Vincent Tan has donated £50,000 to the fund - taking the total sum to almost £230,000 of its £300,000 target.

On the GoFundMe page, it appears as two anonymous £25,000 donations.

Cardiff City have confirmed the authenticity of this.

He revealed last week that he had offered to help Sala's family fly his body home to Argentina.

Tan said: "Cardiff City will continue to work with the Air Accident Investigation Branch and investigators to find out how the crash happened and to assist Emiliano’s family.

"We have offered to them to arrange to take Emiliano back to rest with his family in Argentina. Even though he will be there his soul will always be in our hearts.

"We feel a tremendous loss but the biggest loss is borne by Sala’s family. May Sala’s soul rest in peace."