Originally Posted by
runway30
Excerpts from an interview McKay has had with the Daily Telegraph.
This timeline, which he shared with Telegraph Sport, shows his son had organised and paid for two earlier flights to Nantes for Cardiff manager Neil Warnock to watch the striker and two between the cities for the player
The Scot has repeatedly stressed he neither owns the doomed plane nor had any input into the selection of it or the pilot, Dave Ibbotson.
McKay said he routinely funded the flights and hotels of players he was contracted to sell – and even managers he was trying to sell them to – listing the practice among “gambles” he took in the hope of securing a lucrative payday.’
So we have someone denying ownership of the Malibu, and admitting to pay for it. He has not mentioned anything about cost sharing.
So he is paying for one party at least.
By saying that he has contracted someone else to make the arrangements, he has passed the buck onto the PIC.
It will be very hard to nail him for anything. Henderson on the other hand will be looked at under a microscope.
As for the Eclipse flights, under cost sharing, these are illegal to do so. European and National regulations permit cost sharing as follows:
- The flight is a cost-shared flight by private individuals.
- The direct costs of the flight must be shared between all of the occupants of the aircraft, including the pilot, up to a maximum of 6 persons.
- The cost-sharing arrangements apply to any other-than complex motor-powered EASAaircraft and this includes aircraft registered outside of the EASA area but operated by an operator established or residing in the Community.
- Cost-sharing is also permitted in non-EASA(Annex II of the Basic Regulation) aircraft registered in the UK.
This encompasses N registered aircraft.
Full website can be found here.
https://www.caa.co.uk/General-aviati...aring-flights/
The buck has been well and truly passed onto Ibbotson and Henderson.