Originally Posted by
Winniebago
BD was, but may not have still been at the time, associated with the penultimate aircraft Sala flew in down to Nantes, the Eclipse 500 on the 'N' register - not on an AOC
According to the Bulletin Sala was flown to Nantes in the accident aircraft by Ibbotson.
As for cost sharing, the bulletin simply points out that is the only way this flight could have been legal. As the AAIB don’t apportion blame it is for the reader to join up the dots.
The pilot spent the weekend in Nantes. Unless he hob-nobbed with Sala and his mates all weekend there is no ‘common purpose’. As Henderson’s credit card seems to have been used to cover all costs, it would take quite a stretch of the imagination to find any cost sharing.
Getting to the truth of who paid what to whom will be difficult and probably outside the AAIB’s remit, but by pointing out that the flight was illegal they may spur the CAA and police to take it further.
Greater enforcement might discourage this kind of operation, but the good will remain good and the bad will mostly stay bad.