They found that he held a private pilotвЂ™s licence that did not allow him to conduct flights for money. Was Ibbotson competent?ДЄ contributory factor in the crash, the AAIB said, was Ibbotson having no training in night flying, and a lack of recent practice in relying only on cockpit instruments.

The AAIB has called for it to be made mandatory for planes to carry CO monitors, which it said cost as little as ВЈ15. They believe Ibbotson was probably suffering from carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning when the accident happened, possibly caused by a fault in the exhaust tailpipe that allowed gas to enter the cabin through the heating system. Investigators concluded that the plane was flying at 245 knots at the time of the accident вЂ“ far above the 203 knots maximum speed allowed for the aircraft. This caused such stress that it caused a wing and the tail section to break away. It descended rapidly towards the sea and at the last minute Ibbotson tried to pull up. The AAIB report found that Ibbotson was probably manoeuvring to avoid heavy rain showers just before the plane crashed. What happened on the flight back to Cardiff? The report said he may have felt under pressure to make the return flight because he was being paid. The body of the pilot, David Ibbotson, from Lincolnshire, was not found.ДЄccording to a report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB), Ibbotson heard a вЂњbangвЂќ or вЂњboomвЂќ during the outward flight and вЂњsensedвЂќ mist in the aircraft. His body was recovered from the seabed 68 metres down. The Argentinian striker Emiliano Sala, 28, was being flown from Nantes in France to the Welsh capital to join his new club, Cardiff City, on the evening of 21 January 2019 when the single-engine Piper Malibu aircraft plunged into the Channel north of Guernsey in bad weather.

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