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Death of Emiliano Sala: the owner of the plane had banned the pilot

2021-10-20T14:28:48.489Z


The owner of the small private plane that transported Emiliano Sala assured Wednesday that she had banned the use of the pilot in question, in the third ...


The owner of the small private plane that transported Emiliano Sala assured Wednesday that she had banned the use of the accused pilot, on the third day of the trial of the crash that claimed the life of the Argentine footballer in 2019.

The plane's operator, David Henderson, 67, is being sued in a court in Cardiff, Wales for recklessness or negligence which could have endangered the device in which the 28-year-old was traveling for join the club Cardiff City, where he had just been transferred for 17 million euros.

He is also accused of attempting to transport a passenger without valid authorization, a charge to which he pleaded guilty and which will therefore not be debated during the trial which is to last two weeks.

Piper Malibu owner Fay Keely said she sent an email in July 2018, nearly seven months before the crash, to Henderson urging him to stop using pilot David Ibbotson, 59, after two infractions reported by the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).

She subsequently discovered that Mr. Henderson had nevertheless called on this pilot again in August 2018.

On the day of the crash, "he had to (...) drive himself", she detailed.

"I then discovered that he was not available and that he had asked David Ibbotson to fly in his place (...) without my permission".

On Tuesday, the prosecution criticized David Henderson for prioritizing profitability over safety by taking a pilot he knew was unqualified.

On January 21, 2019, when the plane carrying Emiliano Sala crashed in the English Channel, David Henderson was initially supposed to fly the plane.

But busy, he had arranged for David Ibbotson to take his place, knowing that the latter did not have a commercial pilot license, that his qualification for this type of aircraft had expired and that he was not competent to fly at night.

The body of the 28-year-old player, whose disappearance had moved the football world, was found in the carcass of the device more than two weeks after the accident.

His remains were repatriated in February 2019 to Argentina.

Source: lefigaro

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