Emiliano Sala

[marnie]

Up until recently my father in law had a single engined plane of his own, and the flying over water thing is utter tosh, as he regularly flew to France from here, getting across the Channel literally takes minutes.

And there used to be these single engined planes called Spitfires that were quite handy too..

 

[MrD]

To the best of my knowledge, all the single engine training planes based at the likes of John Lennon airport routinely fly over the River Mersey every single day, weather permitting.

They even advertise taster flights as gifts and part of the blurb includes flying over the Mersey.

Yep,I done that very thing a couple of years ago. We flew down the Mersey then flew down the North Wales coast up until about prestatyn then turned around and came back. Apart from the return over Liverpool the whole flight was over water.

 

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[GrumpyBlue]

 

[goodisonopheliac]

Oh no. I wondered what Lineker was on about.

His poor family must be in agony right now.

 

[The binman chronicles]

That is hearbreaking knowing at any point the pilot could have said this is too much and landed the thing. We as creatures are too stubborn to realise when things are not right and do the right thing.

 

[detonatot7]

That is hearbreaking knowing at any point the pilot could have said this is too much and landed the thing. We as creatures are too stubborn to realise when things are not right and do the right thing.

Big assumption there. The pilot could have been trying just that, or attempting to get control back of the plane.

 

[Hibbo]

I was reading the Cardiff forum the other week. They were all excited for him. Can't catch a break can they.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

This is utterly tragic

 

[The binman chronicles]

Big assumption there. The pilot could have been trying just that, or attempting to get control back of the plane.

It is and yet also it isn't. If we look at the clues including the message Sala sent to friends then we know the plane was in difficulties almost right from the start. As it was a damn sight closer to landing in Cardiff than an hour and a half. We've also had unsubstantiated claims that it took x amount of attempts to get off the ground in the first place. The position it crashed also indicates it he didn't try to land while still in northern France, a commercial jet liner at x amount of thousand feet may have a massive turning circle but this one at 2000 feet wouldn't have needed to go out over sea to come back again. It's possible he may have been trying to land once the writing was on the wall in one of the channel islands but it was already a day late and a dollar short.

What we don't know is if the weather conditions and the vibrations inside the plane any worse than normal for the pilot to think anything was that serious.

*and of course the biggest clue that they never informed ATC the intention to land, just to descend.

 

[hallamblue]

You have to remember that the pilot would be risking his own life if he flew a plane he thought was unsafe, which makes it very unlikely. Not saying it was a brand new lear jet or anything, but he will have done safety checks.

 

[devogue]

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Was a plane like this. Not exactly the rubbish plane it’s being made out to sound like.

I wouldn't fly in that, looks crap

 

[Eggs]

....apparently Cardiff had nothing to do with the hiring of the aircraft, Sala arranged it himself. Clearly there was an issue, but apparently anybody not used to flying in this type of plane can be alarmed at the noises and vibrations it makes.

 

[Big Fat Sam]

Now they reckon he's floating around on a life raft in the sea or has been rescued up by a boat.

The boat theory is surely extremely unlikely seeing as land is very close to where they'll have come down and they'll have had time to contact somebody -- which is the first thing they'll have done after being rescued.

The raft, again extremely unlikely. Say the pilot did a controlled landing on the water and they did manage to get into the lift raft - in the event of a controlled landing he'll have had time to write a message / call somebody prior to the emergency landing. Plus it's a very busy passage of water; they'd have been rescued by now.

I really hope they are both found like, it'd be tragic for two people to have lost their lives like that, even though accidents happen all of the time, it's very sad nonetheless.

 

[Zezti]

You hear about planes going missing around Bermuda, or south east Asia, but the English Channel?? People swim that. Its so surreal to imagine what happened. Its been so cold lately at this point I can't imagine there's much hope of finding them alive even if they had got into a life raft.