The pilot of the plane involved in a crash that killed footballer Emiliano Sala had described the aircraft as “dodgy” and vowed to wear his lifejacket prior to the fatal flight.
Sala was flying from Nantes in France to Wales to join then Premier League club Cardiff City in a £15 million transfer, which involved football agent Willie McKay, from Ligue 1’s Nantes. The plane crashed in the English Channel close to Guernsey, killing Sala, 28, and 59-year-old pilot David Ibbotson.
An inquest in March found the Argentina-born striker died from head and chest injuries but was deeply unconscious, having been poisoned by fumes from the Piper Malibu’s faulty exhaust system, on the evening of January 21, 2019.
