This looks like the biggest cover up ever ! So if we break it down paragraph by paragraph it might get a bit more clarity.
A highly experienced pilot chartered by football agent Willie McKay to fly new Emiliano Sala from France to Wales drafted in a 'rusty' part-time replacement for the job, it was revealed today.
Willie McKay chartered David Henderson to do the flights with Emiliano Sala onboard, but David Henderson subcontracted the flights to Dave Ibbotson ( the buck stops with David Henderson )
The Piper Malibu carrying Cardiff City's new £15million signing vanished over the Channel Islands on Monday January 21 after hitting bad weather en route to Wales from
France.
David Henderson is reported as being Instrument Rated so capable of making such a flight & contracted to conduct the flights but he elected to put a non instrument rated pilot in the aircraft who was incapable of completing such a flight. ( the buck stops with David Henderson )
Mr McKay wanted his usual pilot David Henderson, 60, to carry the Argentinian striker to Britain but he drafted in David Ibbotson, 59, after asking him: 'Do you want to spend a weekend in Nantes?'
The McKays employ David Henderson regularly by reference to 'usual pilot' but now they must be asking themselves how many David Henderson's have actually flown on their behalf ( I assume not every flight has a McKay onboard so how would they know who was the pilot )
Mr Ibbotson, a boiler engineer and part-time pilot, told a friend he was 'a bit rusty' with the instruments of the 35-year-old aircraft and it did not have the licence to carry paying passengers.
Still it remains unanswered why David Henderson's ID was shown at Nantes Airport? it still remains unexplained why an IFR Flightplan was filed
Describing the time period since, Mr McKay, a mega-agent renowned for his contacts in France, told l'Equipe sports newspaper that it has 'been an absolute nightmare for us.'
He said that if he had not allowed Sala to return to his old club, Nantes, to say goodbye to his former teammates and put his beloved dog Nala in kennels 'he would still be with us'.
Not sure what control McKay has/had to tell a grown man that he cannot go to Nantes to say " goodbye" to his mates & bow wow.
Cardiff offered him a commercial flight for the trip, but Mr McKay offered him a private plane 'for free'.
There is no such thing as a 'free trip' someone paid someone.
Mr Ibboston, who was known to have financial problems, is said to have told Mr Henderson that he had lost his credit card.
That may be true but it doesn't explain personal ID documents being checked?
This led to Mr Henderson having to pay for Mr Ibbotson's hotel in France, and for the flight itself.
That may be true but it doesn't explain Dave Henderson's personal ID documents being shown everywhere?
Mr Henderson's details were accordingly given to officials at Nantes-Atlantique airport, leading to initial fears that he had been piloting the doomed flight.
That may be true but it doesn't explain Dave Henderson's personal ID documents being checked at the airport as well as Dave Ibbotson's?
'Since it was Henderson's bank card, everyone thought he was on the plane,' said Willie McKay.
I smell a festering turd here.