Sala RIP.

You'd think in this day and age every plane would have some tracking system fitted which would help locate it if things go wrong
I'm no expert in this field but it baffles me why a plane goes missing between France and England an it can't be located

Quickly^^^

Not to sound morbid but it will be interesting to know why the plane crashed. I mean France to Cardiff is a pretty routine 2 hour flight, wasn't that roughly where Glen Miller disappeared also?

Poor sod. RIP.

Eddie, not surprised it crashed. The plane was 35 years old, was singled engine and last passed its air safety cert in 2015. Sala wouldn't have known this beforehand but this type of plane has got a pi55 poor safety record it turns out. Snce it's creation more than two hundred have gone down.

comment by SB&S (U17757)
posted 6 minutes ago
Eddie, not surprised it crashed. The plane was 35 years old, was singled engine and last passed its air safety cert in 2015. Sala wouldn't have known this beforehand but this type of plane has got a pi55 poor safety record it turns out. Snce it's creation more than two hundred have gone down.
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WTF, fack getting on one of them.

RIP Emiliano Sala

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajioon

comment by Edward Elizabeth Hitler. (U14393)
posted 1 hour, 12 minutes ago
Not to sound morbid but it will be interesting to know why the plane crashed. I mean France to Cardiff is a pretty routine 2 hour flight, wasn't that roughly where Glen Miller disappeared also?
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Because it was only a single engine plane, it probably didn't have a flight voice recorder or black box as it's not required.

The strange thing is there was no Mayday call or emergency landing request from the pilot, which could mean a frozen altitude sensor or incorrect readings due to the conditions. It could have been flying too low anyway, maybe to get there for a deadline?

One thing is for sure, the pilot wasn't qualified to be flying this plane with Sala on board and didn't have the training or expertise to avoid whatever situation they were in.

My dads friend is a pilot and has actually flown me from Blackbushe airport to Shoreham airport in a similar plane. Anyway he knows a lot of pilots in the community who knew David Ibottson. Not only had he not flown for ages and shouldn't have flown that plane over the channel but he was also a daytime pilot not trained on using the dials and readings to navigate through darkness and bad weather.

RIP Sala

But why is there barely a mention of the pilot? Two people were on the plane, not just the footballer.

comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 4 minutes ago
RIP Sala

But why is there barely a mention of the pilot? Two people were on the plane, not just the footballer.
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Yeah agree, regardless of any wrong doing the tragedy has happened and 2 people were on that plane not just one.

comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 11 minutes ago
RIP Sala

But why is there barely a mention of the pilot? Two people were on the plane, not just the footballer.
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I think mainly because technically the pilot is not confirmed as dead. Only Sala has been found so far.

But I do also think the ‘fame’ aspect plays a part...

comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 11 minutes ago
RIP Sala

But why is there barely a mention of the pilot? Two people were on the plane, not just the footballer.
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comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 12 minutes ago
RIP Sala

But why is there barely a mention of the pilot? Two people were on the plane, not just the footballer.
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TBH I've seen the both mentioned a lot.

Such a heartbreaking story

RIP Sala snd Ibbotson

comment by Edbo (U17933)
posted 27 minutes ago
comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 12 minutes ago
RIP Sala

But why is there barely a mention of the pilot? Two people were on the plane, not just the footballer.
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TBH I've seen the both mentioned a lot.
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Yeah, I agree, I've seen him mentioned quite a bit and as someone says, the news bit of this story is one body was recovered and that was the poor lad. As for the pilot, it's another terrible tragedy but I would be more than a little upset if, in good faith, my son hired a pilot without a full commercial licence, without proper training in night flying / inability to use some of the systems in a 35 year old plane he was not familiar with and that gained its air worthiness licence 4 years earlier.

comment by San Miguel (U1449)
posted 6 hours, 38 minutes ago
You'd think in this day and age every plane would have some tracking system fitted which would help locate it if things go wrong
I'm no expert in this field but it baffles me why a plane goes missing between France and England an it can't be located
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The plane went of radar which meant for whatever reason the tracker failed, which is why there was such a big search area.

Planes that lose radar contact the second they smash into the sea are usually found quickly.

My cousins an experienced pilot. Spoke to him the other day and we discussed it.
To fly at night time, in the winter with a single engined plane over that part of the channel was asking for trouble and almost a “suicide” mission.

Anyway RIP to both