The trial in Cardiff opens to reconstruct what happened almost three years ago. The Piper who was to take the Argentine to the new club in Wales crashed during the flight
Almost three years have passed since the death of Emiliano Sala, the Nantes striker who died in a plane crash during the flight that was supposed to take him to Cardiff, where in January 2019 he signed a new contract. A tragedy caused by bad weather and more. The responsibilities will be established by the judges of the capital of Wales, where the trial opens to the pilot David Henderson who should have been at the controls of the plane, entrusted instead to a friend, David Ibbotson.
The facts
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On January 21 two years ago, Sala got on a Piper Malibu to start his new life in the Premier League. The forward had just signed a new contract with the Welsh club, and the transfer had brought in 17 million for Nantes. A record. After a final farewell to the French public, the Argentine never reached his destination. After 40 km, the aircraft ended up in the sea and Sala died instantly, together with the pilot Ibbotson. And it is precisely one of the points of the story on which the process will have to clarify, because Ibbotson should not have been at the controls.
Intertwining
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He was hired at the last moment by his colleague and friend David Henderson who in turn had been hired by Willie McKay, the broker who had led the market operation. Ibbotson, the investigation of the British investigators certified, was not qualified for night flights and the plane was not approved to fly in hostile weather conditions and carry passengers. The aircraft began to disintegrate before the crash in the Channel, off the island of Guernesey, also due to excessive speed. Sala’s body was found after a few days of searching at sea. Not Ibbotson’s. Henderson, denounced by the British Civil Aviation, from today and for two weeks must answer before the judges and provide the first indications in an affair in which the interests of two clubs and of the various agents and intermediaries are also intertwined.
October 18 – 10:32 am
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