Emiliano Sala

[Deleted member 28206]

From a story in The Athletic, on the pilot Ibbotson:

“Ibbotson did not have a commercial flying licence and had £23,400 worth of county court judgments against him. The BBC reported that the pilot was also colour-blind and his licence restricted him to flying in daylight hours only. Ibbotson’s body has never been found.”

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The nagging question is: “Could the death of my friend have been avoided?'”

For many experts, the answer is a resounding yes. Terry Tozer is a former airline pilot and his analysis is cutting.

Tozer told The Athletic: “There is no excuse and no defence at all for this flight to have taken place. Firstly, it is generally a major risk for a single-engine aircraft to fly over water. You should be flying a twin-engined plane, even in glorious conditions, because if the one packs up, you’re in the drink. You should also avoid having a single-crew operation, which increases the risk and the workload, even for a professional pilot.”

At 8.15pm, an hour into the flight, Ibbotson asked air traffic control to reduce the altitude from 5,000 to 2,300 ft. Tozer says: “As someone who has flown at altitude in cloud, it is very easy to become disorientated very quickly. A lot of bad decisions can happen. The pilot did not have a night rating or current instrument qualifications and therefore should not have flown at night or in cloud. This is particularly an issue if you are not instrument-qualified. You could do that flight in icy conditions because even when airborne, you could file up an instrument flight plan to get to a safe altitude even up to 25,000 ft to fly in commercial controlled airspace. But the pilot Ibbotson did not have the instrument qualification to do that.”

Tozer insists that an airport or airfield would not have a say as to whether a flight takes off. He explains: “The responsibility lies with the pilot in the cabin as to whether to fly. The airfield would not intervene; that is not what happens. If the weather is deemed too bad to fly, you should not go. But people suffer from Get-home-itis. Hundreds of private plane accidents take place because people have a promise to get somewhere at a certain time and therefore they feel pressurised and make bad decisions. The French authorities would only intervene if they were tipped off that a dangerous illegal flight is due to happen. There are no checks and balances at the airfield. It comes down to the pilot’s judgement.” “

Tragedy

 

[Goat]

 

[Deleted member 38674]

Alot less than they were scheduled to pay. Probably happy with that.

Mad (and very sad) situation really, was always going to end up going to court.

 

[Charlie Sweet]

Alot less than they were scheduled to pay. Probably happy with that.

Mad (and very sad) situation really, was always going to end up going to court.

It's only the 1st inatllment though isnt it? Reckon they will have to pay up full contract figure

 

[Deleted member 38674]

It's only the 1st inatllment though isnt it? Reckon they will have to pay up full contract figure

Ahh yes, didn't spot that. So basically they've been court-ordered not to delay payments and must maintain the schedule.

A court may yet still find in their favour (doubtful) and Nantes may have to return that money.

I can totally see from both Cardiff and Nantes' side on this.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Ahh yes, didn't spot that. So basically they've been court-ordered not to delay payments and must maintain the schedule.

A court may yet still find in their favour (doubtful) and Nantes may have to return that money.

I can totally see from both Cardiff and Nantes' side on this.

I said before that all 3 parties should agree to take a hit. Hopefully if the agents pay up a few million then Nantes get 8 or so million for a player that cost them 1M. Cardiff don't have to pay the full 15 million for nothing, as I doubt the insurance company are going to pay in full or even at all.

 

[Goat]

I said before that all 3 parties should agree to take a hit. Hopefully if the agents pay up a few million then Nantes get 8 or so million for a player that cost them 1M. Cardiff don't have to pay the full 15 million for nothing, as I doubt the insurance company are going to pay in full or even at all.

Nar, dont see why Nantes should take a hit, Cardiff are the 1s who took the cheap option.

 

[Undisputed_blue]

I guess the outcome is dependent on contract clauses. For example, payment was subjected to player passing medical and successful EPL registration.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Sickening that Swansea tried to pull a fast one, they bought the player

Cardiffffs

 

[Yarrgh]

Sickening that Swansea tried to pull a fast one, they bought the player.

Was that Cardiff's defence? Blame Swansea?

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Was that Cardiff's defence? Blame Swansea?

Whatever. Neither of them belong into English league to begin with ffs

 

[Huyton Layne]

Glad they've been ordered to pay. Maybe now they'll pay proper attention to their employees/assets.
Absolute scumbags for trying to weasel out of it.

 

[Wayno]

Hope Cardiff never play in the premier league again. Should go back to the Welsh leagues imo, grim away day anyway. Brought the whole football league into disrepute with this, if Everton did this I would be absolutely disgusted

 

[twoblue]

I said before that all 3 parties should agree to take a hit. Hopefully if the agents pay up a few million then Nantes get 8 or so million for a player that cost them 1M. Cardiff don't have to pay the full 15 million for nothing, as I doubt the insurance company are going to pay in full or even at all.

Surely someone is suing the agent, the airline company and airport to recover losses.

 

[Moomin]

Surely someone is suing the agent, the airline company and airport to recover losses.

What airport and why?