Revealing dialogues from the pilot by Emiliano Sala about the deadly plane’s troubles

The BBC dedicated a series of podcasts to the plane crash that claimed life Emiliano Sala while preparing for a transfer to Cardiff, and the pilot of the Piper Malibu plane that flew him to Wales.

THE David Ibbotson He first flew to France from the Welsh city and then returned on the same single-engine plane, which he confided to a friend but had problems.

“I have a Cardiff footballer. They just bought him from Nantes for about £20,000,000 or so. I was assigned to get him on a controversial plane. I usually keep my life jacket between my seats, but I’ll definitely wear it tomorrow,” He is heard saying in audio, first heard from his latest podcast, Transfer: The Emiliano Sala Story.

The 59-year-old pilot also died in the crash on January 21, 2019, although his body was not found. He was an amateur pilot and was not allowed to carry passengers or fly at night.

During his flight to the French city, he heard certain sounds from the ship: “I’m half done and ‘bang’. I fly and then ‘boom’. I was like ‘what happened?’ I brought everything forward, checked the data, everything was fine and it was still flying, but it caught my attention. In fact, he also told his friend Kevin Jones that it existed “Much Fog” and how “This plane needs to go back to the garage”.

Ibbotson also informed the plane’s other pilot, 67-year-old businessman David Henderson, that there were problems on the flight to Nantes, but no engineer was called to check the Piper Malibu when it landed in France.

It is worth noting that Ibbotson and Henderson arranged the flights on behalf of the owner without having the necessary certification and without keeping any records or accounts for the company. In 2021, Henderson was jailed for 18 months for compromising the safety of an airplane while admitting another misdemeanor and attempting to arrange a flight with a passenger without permission or authorization.