Originally Posted by
GotTheTshirt
I have not seen the reason for the delay to the original 0900 flight plan.
A morning departure, I would have thought, would obviously be what Mr Ibbotson would have preferred, so the delay, I would not think, had been his decision
The speculation is the delay was pressumably that Sala hadn't arrived. The question could be how much was Ibbotson being kept in the dark over the prior arrangements?
*IF* the previous text messages between McKay and Sala prior to the outbound flight from Cardiff are indeed true, then Sala was expecting to return in the evening, not in the morning, so why did Ibbotson file the flight plan for the morning.....? Possibly deliberately misled over the arrangements, given the way this thing seems to have been arranged, but then again, we'll probably never know for sure.