Reading the report below ,in the Grimsby Evening Telegraph, clearly there was an incentive for Ibbotson to take the job. With his credit card issues it is fair to assume he was not picking up the tab.
I suspect he spent too much time flying and not enough on the day job.
The private pilot who died with Emiliano Sala when his plane went down in the English Channel was ordered by a court to settle a £4,413 bill just days before he was hired to fly the Cardiff City star, it can be revealed.
David Ibbotson, 59, from Crowle near Scunthorpe, had already been told to pay off £23,000 worth of debt before he was made the subject of a fifth court order for the additional bill on January 11 - 10 days before the tragedy.
It had already been established that Mr Ibbotson faced £23,000 worth of debt repayment orders to companies including Orange, Yorkshire Water, Barclaycard and Bank of Scotland.
The revelation comes amid an investigation into how Mr Ibbotson, who had dropped out of commercial flight training, was hired to make the doomed flight. Private pilots are banned from taking payment for commercial flights
https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/n...-order-2641984