Originally Posted by
runway30
So a football agent involved in the deal says I’ll lend the lad my aircraft together with a pilot/gas engineer he uses occasionally. No money changes hands other than the money in the football deal. The pilot is legal to fly Nantes/Cardiff. Although reckless, the single engined aircraft is legal to fly over water on a winter night. Now tell me what you would change to stop this happening?
And if the Agent does indeed own the aircraft as reported then I suspect that is exactly what happened. A private flight and poor Sala had no idea about the risk he was taking in accepting the "kind" offer from someone he knew.