Don't know if this is new information or not: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-60579764
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Footballer Emiliano Sala died instantly from "head and trunk injuries" when the plane he was in crashed after breaking up mid-air, a jury has found |
It is in the AAIB report.
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Originally Posted by megan
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Really? Where do they get this from?
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Thanks chaps, amazing the detail one forgets. I'll put the dunce cap on and stand in the corner.
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New , so not sure how to post links but if someone could , there’s an article in the ‘Sun’ a several days ago regarding a new book out on the accident.
If someone could be so kind as to get it here , we can all boggle at the underwater images of the ‘Private jet’ Sala died in... |
Originally Posted by Flugzeug A
(Post 11223019)
New , so not sure how to post links but if someone could , there’s an article in the ‘Sun’ a several days ago regarding a new book out on the accident.
If someone could be so kind as to get it here , we can all boggle at the underwater images of the ‘Private jet’ Sala died in... |
BBC Radio 4 have made a documentary about this subject. Find it here on BBC sounds:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0...ory_SEG_PNC%5D |
New BBC audio from a telephone conversation Ibbotson had prior to the return flight:
"I picked a footballer up from Cardiff They've entrusted me to pick him up in a dodgy [Malibu] Mirage Normally I'd have my lifejacket in between my seats, but tomorrow I'll be wearing my lifejacket, that's for sure" |
I've already made my thoughts (as an aviation professional of 27 years standing) on this utterly preventable, avoidable and unnecessary "accident" crystal clear in this thread and repetition will not strengthen my point, so I'll simply remark that I hope this genie is out the bottle and stays out. The genie being some of the archaic GA regulations and the resulting weak enforcement of them. I'm no longer in the aviation profession, but I know that many who are share my views.
Some of the immediately involved have faced the consequences... hopefully that does not end the matter, as a few minutes research just on this website alone will show dozens of accidents which share the same characteristics as this one. Condolences to all the bereaved families and friends (including those of the pilot) but I hope they can endure the continuing spotlight in the hope that some good will come from it all. |
A TV documentary about Emiliano is now available on BBC Iplayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...-emiliano-sala
Has anything been done by the CAA to try to stop this kind of thing happening again? |
I very much doubt it. The CAA does try but so many PPLs do it that it becomes impossible to prove until a disaster such as this happens. I'm still horrified by the Wingly concession. One factor that should be publicised is the clause in many insurance policies (particularly those attached to mortgages) which excludes flight except in multi-engined aircraft flown by a pilot with not less than commercial multi-engine rating.
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Originally Posted by Ddraig Goch
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A TV documentary about Emiliano is now available on BBC Iplayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...-emiliano-sala
Has anything been done by the CAA to try to stop this kind of thing happening again? |
Originally Posted by Geriaviator
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I'm still horrified by the Wingly concession.
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… what is and what isn't acceptable cost sharing, as the FAA has done in the US, … |
What I don't understand with this unfortunate incident is the apparent complicity of the footballer in question (not blaming him here, this is just an opinion, observation) to fly in the aircraft in the first place.
Obviously with hindsight but if it was me, I would have insisted a main carrier first class with all the bells and whistles. After all he was worth several million. Academic of course but flying with a single pilot in a small aircraft doesn't seem to fit the footballer lifestyle? |
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Originally Posted by uxb99
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What I don't understand with this unfortunate incident is the apparent complicity of the footballer in question (not blaming him here, this is just an opinion, observation) to fly in the aircraft in the first place.
Obviously with hindsight but if it was me, I would have insisted a main carrier first class with all the bells and whistles. After all he was worth several million. Academic of course but flying with a single pilot in a small aircraft doesn't seem to fit the footballer lifestyle? Sala had to be back in Cardiff for PR/ training on the day after the accident, and left Nantes late. As the aircraft had delivered him ‘safely’ southbound, and time was against him, not unreasonable for him to assume the same northbound. Let’s assume the cowboy pilot looked and sounded professional when customer facing, rather than the incompetent one that was the truthful position. Easy to spot with the benefits of hindsight and background knowledge. Looking at Cardiffs Met both actual and forecast vs pilot experience/currency, I don’t think a safe arrival was in anyway assured either. To a 28 year old soccer player, under time pressure, probably not wanting to let the new club down on his first day in the office, and now entering the big leagues nowhere like as obvious, hence boarding the aircraft. |
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