Inquest: Footballer Emiliano Sala likely unconscious before fatal air crash
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- 21 Mar 2022
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Argentine footballer died in a plane crash having inhaled toxic levels of carbon monoxide from the aircraft's faulty exhaust system.
Carbon monoxide from the aircraft's faulty exhaust system during an unlicensed 2019 flight, an inquest jury ruled Thursday.
Sala, 28, and pilot David Ibbotson, 59, died when the single-engined Piper Malibu plane they were travelling in came down in the Channel en route from Nantes, northwest France, to Cardiff.
The forward had signed for Cardiff City, who were then in the Premier League, for a club record £15 million (18 million euros, US$19 million) from Nantes.
David Henderson, 67, who organised the flight, was sentenced after a criminal trial last November to 18 months in prison for hiring a pilot he knew to be unqualified and for carrying a passenger without valid authorisation. Read More...
