Published by Willie McKay.
"I said to Dave [Henderson], I need a plane. He said no problem. He paid the landing fees and fuel."
According to McKay, Henderson had to pay for Ibbotson's hotel in France, and for the airline fuel. Ibbotson, who had written online that he was a bit "rusty" before the flight, had reportedly told Henderson that he had lost his credit card.
Willie McKay is trying to walk this ridiculous tightrope because he can’t say that he owned the aircraft and he doesn’t want to say that he chartered it so I think he is trying to say that it was a private flight but without him being responsible for the aircraft? Of course Henderson handed over his bank card because Ibbotson had lost his if we just overlook that Ibbotson shouldn’t have been flying anyway.