Originally Posted by
clareprop
There's no conspiracy. He was with his mates in Nantes. Offered a commercial flight back from Paris but decided to go back with the plane his agent booked for him. Unfortunately, he was between clubs so not really being managed or looked after. He (and probably his agent) had no idea about the sort of things we're talking about here. You tell Joe Public he's going on a private plane and he sees in his mind everything from a twin beech to a twin jet. If the pilot is confident and reassuring (either through stupidity or get home-itis), it's going to be a passenger with very acute clarity of thought who doesn't go along.
He wouldn’t have known the difference but I think it will be discovered during the investigation that someone very much knew what was going on and smoke and mirrors are being used at the moment.