Football Tragedy | Here’s What Really Happened During Emiliano Sala’s Fatal Flight [Real Audio]
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- Find out why on 21 January 2019 the Piper PA-46 transporting Argentine football player Emiliano Sala crashed in the English Channel.
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As a Private Pilot, I am horrified by this entire scenario. The thought of a pilot being paid to fly someone at night, in bad weather without being qualified or proficient enough to do so, is truly sickening.
Same thing happened to Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the "Big Bopper".
JFK Jr. was thoughtful enough to do the same thing to his wife and sister in law.
I know, right?
colorblind as well...not sure how that figures in.
@@OleGeezerCirca1941 similar indeed.
All the money that is in football and they couldn’t arrange a proper professional pilot and an airworthy plane, absolutely sickening
Cardiff arranged a flight for him but he didn't take had this one he or his agent arranged can't remember which on
I was thinking the same thing. DiD the football player not know these things about his pilot?
I mean I just can’t comprehend how a person would let a pilot fly him if he know about his terrible record I sure as hell wouldn’t.
Yeah, no way the team arranged this. I’m assuming the player himself, or the agent arranged this.
The club arranged a flight but he turned it down. His own personal agent sorted this flight. Keep football out of it.
It's even more appalling that you can be the innocent passenger that needs to trust the pilot, the condition of the plane and the Air Traffic regulations. The plane wasn't licensed to carry passengers for profit, the pilot wasn't licensed to fly that aircraft and his license was out of date, the pilot wasn't even familiar with the plane he was flying. The pilot was color blind and wasn't licensed to fly at night. Isn't it scary that all these regulations can be breached without proper procedures being checked. And why is it that they wait for a crash to then make it mandatory to install a 15 dollar C.O warning alarm in all small aircraft. I believe regardless what airport it is and what time of day or night it is, a pilot should have to go to an in airport inspection office and have his credentials checked before he or she is allowed to fly. And also be made to present an up to date service record for the plane.
The carbon monoxide poisoning would also explain why Sala said he felt so tired in his messages. Sad and avoidable accident.
I think the pilot knew the state of the airplane.
It also explains why wanted to fly low.
He also forgot to check the oil pressure.
To prevent gasses getting in the cabin he also could decrease the mixture.
@@arnoldmeulen how do oil pressure and mixture affect the CO gasses getting into the cabin? I looked through the POH for a PA46 and the heating system is basically the same as that of a Skyhawk with just a few extra steps. It still uses an exhaust shroud to collect heat that gets pumped into the cabin when heating is on - and therefore the C02 is more than likely coming from a crack in the exhuast pipe getting fed into the shroud. Is there something about the heating system that is affected by either oil pressure or mixture?:
@@arnoldmeulen That is absolutely not how that works at all in the slightest
@@Mike_294 you are correct, a crack in the exhaust is how it happens. Many mechanics don’t bother to inspect the exhaust. Oil pressure is a completely different system, would have nothing to do with it. Changing the mixture might change the smell of the toxic gasses, but there would still be toxic gases being pumped into the cabin
@@hiller_aviation thank you! I knew it didn't sound quite right that oil pressure and mixture had anything to do with C02 poisoning in the cabin, but I didn't want to assume as I've never flown a Malibu. The words in that POH just about put me to sleep I didn't understand any of it xD
That’s awful he had to joke because he was genuinely petrified and it actually happened. So sorry to his family friends and team mates. I’m kind of glad he sent them messages as it gave them an understanding of what happened and could hear his voice one last time. RIP SALA
Him semi-joking about the plane falling apart and people needing to come find him is... chilling.
He was joking. Argentinians do that all the time. We speak like that, joking about everything
@@solleehcastro ," joking ",was he " joking " STUPID?!
@@isabelcuevas7927 are you from argentina?
I know some Argentinians, I’m their neighbor in South America. They are hilarious. Always joking about everything no matter how serious the situation. Good vibe that they have. Very sad about this story tho. RIP
He was joking but the fact that carbon monoxide poisoning was part of the cause, he sounded very sleepy and yawned several times. Could have already been effecting him and the pilot. The pilot veered off course shortly after as well.
This is an outrage. Everything about this flight was wrong and an innocent young man was snuffed out in his prime by what can only be described as criminal behaviour.
Absolutely it’s murder , plain and simple
@@rosemarymcgrory5678 So if the pilot murdered the kid that means the pilot also committed suicide. He did this by causing a leak in the exhaust system so both of them would pass out and the airplane would crash and they both would die and possibly so would people on the ground.
Sounds so plausible.
There are lots of job opening for people like you in the middle east. Falls under the job title of "judge, jury and executioner".
@@rosemarymcgrory5678 I'd say more like criminal negligence causing death.
@@maplobats Many clear and obvious breaches of the Civil Aviation Act 2012 and numerous breaches of CAA regulations. The problem is deciding where legal responsibility lies. The original pilot (David Henderson) who backed out of the job has been charged but the agents and Cardiff FC have not.
@@TheNYgolfer be as cynical as you wish. Doesn't change facts.
Known mechanical defect-exhaust leak.
Pilot not IFR qualified.
Pilot flying VFR at night.
Pilot not endorsed for commercial.
If your semantics don't describe that as murder, then so sorry someone hurt your feelings. We'll call it aviation manslaughter, nnkayy? Feel better now?
I'm an old retired pilot with 35 years of flying experience and I find this truly sickening too. That flight was all wrong from the get-go for all the obvious reasons. If this was organised by the football club they should be crucified. A fine young man has lost his life because of stupidity. Sound like a severe case of get there itis.
It wasn’t he turned down Cardiff’s offer for a commercial flight , a man called David Henderson did.
Henderson now in jail for it.
@@jdavison8551 But what about Cardiff FC's owner? If Henderson was following the club's standard operating procedure and Henderson was answerable to the owner, what were his consequences?
@@walterzielinski6654 you could Google the case for more details. Henderson was certainly not following any SOP.
Huh? But wasn't carbon monoxide the sole cause of the crash?
The words “no one survived” hurts harder then a punch in the face.
*than
@@martinc.720 Idc
This was a legit murder-suicide by the pilot. He knew he should not have been flying and one can only surmise he deliberately took those lives, probably due to a God complex.
@@rstidman ye
Ikr
Been a Private Pilot for over 20 years and everything about this makes my skin crawl. I learned my chops in a 1970s Cherokee 140 in Puerto Rico and did a number of VFR Flights to other islands such as St Thomas. On one trip to St Thomas I had just started crossing the water I ended up getting surrounded by pop up Thunderstorms, I literally had no place to go but ended up barely threading the needle and making it to St Thomas thanks to a very heady approach Controller in San Juan. I will never forget the controller telling me "This was forecast since yesterday, you need to do a better job preparing or you will end up dead".. I never forgot that and since then I am a very prepared pilot no matter where I go.. RIP
Sala had a gut instinct and probably sensed something unsettling from even before the plane took off. Folks trust your instincts. He shoukd have refused the flight.
Stop referring to people by their last names.
@greg hawkins
Scram troll. HAL9000 needs deactivation
It was during the flight, not before. He felt there was something wrong with the plane and sent messages to his mates saying something doesn't sound right
@@greghawkins1025 Good suggestion, Hawkins.
@@greghawkins1025 okay Hawkins
He knew he might not make it alive makes it more heartbreaking
I’d have said take me back now
The only consolation thing of this horrible story is that, probably, the CO made him unconscious and avoided him to see the terrible fall into the sea...
@@mancuby6679 Hopefully he did not know anything. This film scares me.
In his phone message, he talked like he was on something. Possibly the CO poisoning began quite early in the flight.
So scary, travelling at night in bad thundery weather over the sea, the sheer smallness of the plane and largeness of sea.. this video pertrifies me.
Poor Emiliano even said he was scared ☹ I'm heartbroken. What a terrifying experience..
Man, sometimes you have to trust your gut and not do something. Sala did not have a good feeling about that plane. But the pressure of that life he led kind of takes over.
He was scheduled to be at the job next afternoon, a highly paid job.
I don’t know...I own my own plane and most passengers have literally zero clue what is normal or not. So i probably wouldn’t trust Sala,s judgment in this case. Many ppl are very nervous in small aircraft.
I initially felt bad for Ibbotson the pilot, but it was his own fault really. He made a ridiculously risky decision for the money and his employer didn't think twice about it. The victims are his family and Emiliano's.
But that has nothing to do with the fact that the cabin was exposed to CO2. It's quite possible it would have been an uneventful flight if not for that.
@@minivansareevil he didn't even have the correct license..
@@user-2591 But that has nothing to do with physically operating a plane. You're talking a legality. We can all agree his paperwork was not in order, but as he was a successful pilot, that does not mean he was incapable of reaching his destination. My point was that the CO2 clearly played a huge part of the problem (note the dive prior to the attempt to recover) and it was not foreseeable.
@@minivansareevil Whether the presence of CO2 in a 35 yr. old "rickety"plane was reasonably foreseeable and was the proximate cause of the plane crash are legal issues to be decided in a court of law imho.
@@uwanttono4012 35 year old planes aren't 'rickety' and anything with an engine gives a possibility of CO2 emission. Obviously the pilot is responsible legally, the question is would the plane have made its destination without the presence of CO2? There's nothing to indicate it wouldn't have.
I spent nearly 6 hours searching this crash site early the next morning by helicopter. We saw nothing. The accident should never have happened had people not tried to do things ‘on the cheap’ in my opinion. As a professional pilot, I find it hard to believe that this aircraft actually left the ground that night given the circumstances surrounding the accident, from pilot qualifications (or lack thereof) to aircraft state, and weather enroute. Someone has to be held accountable somewhere along the planning chain and it wasn’t just the pilot IMO.
I am surprised the bang which the pilot heard on the previous flight from Cardiff to Nantes was not investigated before the fatal flight. This may have had something to do with the leak into the cabin.
Best reply on here.
Allow me to correctly translate the last part of the audio from Emiliano. He actually says "If you have no news from me in an hour and a half, I don't know if you'll send somebody after me because you won't find me, but you know... oh man, I'm scared.". Amazing work you have done TheFlightChannel, I've become a fan.
Even more chilling is to hear him using the very common expression for tired (in Spanish and Portuguese at least): he said “Estoy muerto (I’m dead)”. Meaning dead tired of course, but still.
I didn't understand what he said at the very end. The translation says I'm scared, but I know I'm scared is tengo miedo.
I expect he made the call to calm his nerves perhaps. Flying in the dark in a light aircraft - I would be scared too.
@@dylanwelch8228 He said: "qué miedo que tengo" which translates to something such as: how scared I´m
@@jbaroli Thanks Juan !
when you see duct tape holding the wings together you should say to yourself "nah, i'll take the ferry"
Thanks captain hindsight oh great one could you answer some questions I have about my sexual problems
@@seamusblack5876 bruh get ya confused and weird self outa here. This isn’t simply just hindsight, when u see something like that that’s a severe and blatant red flag
What do you think about the ISS decor then?
@@seamusblack5876 You clearly don't know what hindsight means because it has nothing to do with recognising a vehicle as a death trap...
So sad. I remember his sister posting a picture of Nala (his dog) by his door waiting for him to return. RIP Emiliano
Yes I remember that too. So sad 😢 Hope doggie is okay nowadays. RIP Emiliano
Dogs are so loyal and loving and smart. Sad thing is I feel worse for the dog than the player.
@@tabby73 The dog might be but the sister isn't, she tried to kill herself back in July.
@@krashd all of this is incredibly sad. For Emiliano, the sister and the dog. Have some respect - life is very precious
Non IFR rated? Stay home until weather improves.
I wish I could like this a million times
I often wondered what was the hurry to get to Cardiff for? Was he playing a game the next day? RIP to both men.
It's even worse than that, the flight included a good proportion over water, so the pilot would probably not be licensed to make the flight in good conditions, nor would the single engine plane. It was a sh*t show from the start to try to use that combination to transport the player.
@@baf_mcnab3065 its true the pilot wasnt licensed to fly passengers over 50 nautical miles and he wasnt allowed to carry passengers for payment like this... (You need an air carrier certificate to operate the plane) but explain your thinking about the over water bit? Can't see anything in the FAA regulations about over water flight.
@@TerribleFire I don't know if it's changed then, but back in the day if a part of the flight was over water, more rules came into force. For instance the pilot should report when leaving land and making land again, and IIRC should plan so that less time is spent over water. It's all to do with what happens if the engine fails. On the big Jets all kinds of extra certification is needed to cross the pond. (ETOPS) Now I know this guy wasn't crossing the pond but he could have taken a route that greatly reduced his time over the water. By the way, you mention the FAA, I am guessing you are referring to the Federal Aviation Authority ? If so then some aviation rules and laws in the US are not quite as tight as here in Europe. If I got my PPL there, then I would have to take more lessons and tests if I wanted to fly over the UK/Europe.
Despite the sad story, you provided such a detailed account of the flight that respects the Sala family. Well done.
The phone message to his family was heartbreaking, as if he knew something terrible was going to happen. Very sad indeed.
Shouldn’t fly cheap
Such a sad story. Hearing Sala himself tell his family he’s scared in that plane is heartbreaking. Too bad he didn’t know that pilot’s history beforehand. Plus the plane being a piece of junk. RIP.
Made me really sad, the fear he must have felt during that flight but not be able to get out of there.
The plane wasn't "a piece of junk". It was in normal condition. CO or CO2 leaks can happen in most Airplanes of this category.
@dražen zagreb money-what else...
I would be scared in a small light plane - no matter how good the pilot and plane. They crash more than any other kind of aircraft. So Sala saying he is scared - he really was.
Seeing Person's last moments was such a sad story, may God Bless us all.
Da - Yeah, a very sad story - but I dunno why you bring some unspecified god thing into the story.
And what will blessings from a invisible man in the sky do for us..
Instead of signing a contract, they signed his death warrant...
The legendary comment for this video. True 500%.
Money rules the world
I have been following you for so long. I am addicted to your videos. I am Argentinean. When I learned the news, I ran to the Sim to recreate the flight and feel the terrifying experience... tried to make it to Cardiff... I can't image how it must have felt. The voice recording adds to the sadness, like he knew.
I am really thankful that you made this episode. Thank you so much.
Pablo ,El piloto no tenía las habilitaciones necesarias para ese vuelo nocturno instrumental.
Las autoridades del aeropuerto aún así aceptaron el plan de vuelo.
Dadas sus limitaciones el.piloto debió haber pospuesto el vuelo para el día siguiente y en condiciones visuales.
Fallo todo el sistema.
El piloto y las autoridades.
It gave me goosebumps when I heard him say in Spanish literally "I'm dead" when he was referring to himself being tired.
That's just an argentinism... or the way we Argies speak Rioplatense Spanish. We tend to exacerbate and overpower our discourse with metaphors and exaggerate sentences in order to add some "poetry". "Estoy muerto" equals to "I'm really tired" or "I'm exhausted"... though we never use the term "exausto" (exhausted).
The pilot was an utter disgrace, unlicensed and unqualified, he condemned that poor young man to death. RIP Sala
Sorry, but you dont have an idea of what CO is.
@@franciscopino7552 Doesnt matter. That pilot should never have been flying in the first place. CO has nothing to do with that. Even without the CO he was gambling with his own life. He had no right to gamble with some1 elses life.
@@franciscopino7552 You are truly the king of stupidity.
@@franciscopino7552 You are truly the king of stupidity.
Not just the pilot but the company and boss that permitted him to fly the plane with an "expired-wrong-licence"
This flight was doomed since the beggining...I cant believe how much irregularities are in this one...And why in the blody hell would you even get in at a plane like this...So sad...RIP
The sports star is not a pilot 'supposed to be star'. One accepts that a pilot is capable to do the job. After all it is life and death once in the air.
This is what happens when you try to cut costs. You end up not only losing more money, but also lives.
💯 isn’t that what happened with the 737 MAX? Shame to Boeing...
Even by watching this I feel so uncomfortable I can‘t even imagine how Sala must have been felt in his last moments do terrifying I just hope it was fast and he didn’t feel any pain RIP 🥺🥺
Stop referring to people by their last names.
@@greghawkins1025 ok hawkins
@@yougetonthathorseyougottar6126 LOL
The full AAIB report states:
"Post-mortem tests on the passenger showed a blood carboxyhaemoglobin (COHb) level of 58%35, and the pathologist considered that he would almost certainly have been ‘deeply unconscious’ at impact."
It's the adrenalin of being unable to get away from what's going to kill you
It's time that they bring in a law that means you can fly or you can't fly. Forget visual flight rules. Instrument trained or not, fly in the day but not night???!. You're either trained completely for everything or you don't qualify for a license. Simple.
Yeah. VFR AND IFR license or go home. I agree with this one.
If they'd sent a decent bizjet for this high value guy, instead of cheaping out with a piston single, they'd have saved a lot of money....and blood.
Nothing to do with the airplane. The pilot was way in over his head.
Ifr pilot was all that was needed.plane was fine
@@Helibeaver No Sir. The plane had a CO leak, it happens in light piston singles because they use heat transfer from the exhaust to heat the cabin. Going by light piston single is like going by motorbike, compared to going by bus. Every year plenty of these fun aircraft go down. They are not intended to be used as mini-airliners. However, I agree that this flight could have gone ok, if right at the edge of legality and definately over the line in some respects. He was really pushing his luck.
His agent cutting costs.
@@ossiemac I can't imagine a scenario where a plane charter is cheaper than a plane ticket.
Horrible news, especially as he was flying to come and play for my club. everyone that supports Cardiff was so sad about his death. We sang loads of songs and held vigils for Emiliano. Will haunt our club forever
RIP 💙
what if it was a hit on him to not out score Neymar, remember mafia also exists in Soccer/football, i mean especially in all sports..
@@P71ScrewHead So you’re implying that the mafia has gotten into cloud seeding? Hahaha🤦♂️
@@livelyupmyself1 organized crime n mafias are everywhere, Soccer, NBA, MLB, Everywhere..
@dražen g the day cardiff city changed forever. now they look like heading for league one.
What was the final financial outcome between the clubs ? I know Cardiff didn't want to pay for him as he'd not even attended a training session, I believe.
I've been liking the recent efforts into making graphics and maps following the paths and stuff, great job.
How does a professional club allow their recent multimillion pound signing to get on that plane with that pilot??
They actually arranged flights for him but Sala turned it down
That’s right Reuben, City wanted him to take an earlier commercial flight.
@@splottparker sala didn't want to travel from his home to Paris for arranged flight because it was a few hours away and was tired
It’s a bit annoying that The City are being blamed by some re. the flight arrangements, it was completely out of their hands. As I’ve said a commercial, scheduled flight was offered but certain people!!!!! decided against this. The first court case has just been concluded, another next February apparently, the truth will eventually emerge, going to be very interesting to see the outcome of a very sad, needless and avoidable incident.
So that they can kept the money 💰
I'm a cardiff city fan and this is sad. We were finally going to have a good striker and this tragedy happened. When we played the game after the plane got lost everyone was singing Sala songs R.I.P Sala
My God, he was so alone and so frightened. RIP young man. By God's grace, perhaps the CO put them into a deep sleep and they felt nothing.
I dont understand. What do you mean by CO2 put them in a deep sleep? Where would it have come from?
@@DerickMasai read further. I understand it to explain that these emissions can happen on these particular aircraft, but further explains that exhausts deal with that. The pilot did also mention that he saw "fine mist".
Certainly, I'm no pilot, but I do know that carbon monoxide is a silent killer. That's what I meant when I said that I hoped that they felt nothing, just went into a deep sleep.
Whatever happened, my heart goes out to their families and loved ones.
@@DerickMasai Did you watch the video?
@@DerickMasai He means CO. Carbon Monoxide, which was seeping into the aircraft cabin.
@@DerickMasai Did you watch the video? You should, it's pretty good, and contains all the information you seem to be missing.
This was an accident waiting to happen & for what ? Profit, yet again. R I P young man.
Clubs then argued about the fees just a week later. Should have been forced to give it to his family not that it would even make up for losing a loved one
Cardiff arranged a flight he wanted to asrrive earlier and didn't take it
Flying VFR over english channel in such a weather and in night time is crazy idea imho
I'm not a pilot but I didn't think VFR at night over water was actually a thing.
@@onemoremisfit Well theres night VFR and english channel is not that big but that pilot was not certified for night flying
@@tomasdvorak5815 even James May knew it was a bad idea, which is why he and Richard Hammond completed the Top Gear Truffle Challenge on the Eurostar and a bus.
@@onemoremisfit It's a legal thing, but not typically an operational thing. This is because, just like a moonless night over a horizon-to-horizon desert, there is no difference between visual and instrument weather conditions as far as pilot skill required. In both cases, there are no visual cues continuously available, so the flight must be conducted on instruments. With a rated and experienced pilot with good basic equipment, that's no problem. For others, it can be deadly. Even with CO poisoning and any other factors removed in this scenario, the risk of the flight ending this way was significant.
@@CassassinCatto Nope. James May wasn't (or isn't) rated to fly at night. It had nothing to do with whether it was a bad idea or not, he simply wasn't allowed to fly at night.
Of course, that's because James May is awesome and follows the rules, especially when his own life is at stake. The pilot of the accident Malibu didn't, and paid the ultimate price for it.
I just keep wondering why in hell they had him transported like this instead of just booking him a flight on an actual airline.....
Because if you have enough money for a taxi, why would you go with bus?
@@penttiXD if the bus is a mercedes and the taxi a banged up 1970s ford pinto. yeah i'll take the bus.
Using private transport meant that Sala could get to Cardiff in time to be available for the club's next match - that would not have been the case with scheduled transport. However the REAL issue is that neither the club nor the agents ensured that the the travel arrangements were both legal and safe. Had the job been given to a proper air taxi company, there would have been no problems.
There were so many things that could have easily been avoided to prevent this crash, I heard it was originally supposed to take off during the day but it got delayed to the night in which it was dark and also had bad weather
David Ibbotson was heavily in debt, and had been the subject of a Court Order, about a week before this crash. No pressure.
Wonder if it was suicide.
@@twistedyogert As far as I know they flew to Nantes and the tragedy happened when they were coming back to UK. If it was a suicide why wait untill the return flight, it makes no sense.
An anonymous coward writing unsubstantiated rubbish about a dead person on TH-cam. Well done numbnuts
@@twistedyogert it wasn’t, I remember when they found the plane it was determined that the pilot did his best to try and get the plane down safely, sala recorded a message that he sent to his family saying there was something wrong with the plane also
RC Fokker - Exactly! Debt probably consumed his every thought. I also read a couple were sent to jail for leaking mortuary shots of Sala's body. How terrible for his loved ones.
Wow this man puts so much effort to his video! I like this channel so much.
Don’t assume gender bc the person has never done a face reveal. A woman could be making these vids also
@@darshant.9472 It’s probably a he
@@darshant.9472 shut up
This video definitely required extra effort especially with the storm effects and sounds. Well done as always.
@@darshant.9472 It's actually a Scandinavian man who makes these vids. Sometimes he puts his voice in the video.
But I do agree on the don't-assume-someone's-gender part!
Doesn’t seem there wasn’t one regulation that wasn’t broken on this flight, and Sala’s fears about the plane and the flight were all too real.
but regulations kill jobs
Stop referring to people by their last names.
@@greghawkins1025 Shut up Hawkins.
@@p4th0gen Shut your own mouth, Willie.
@@p4th0gen My first name's Greg.
Would love to see a video for Aaliyah's tragedy from back in 2001. Love your channel!
Good choice
Yes, Aaliyah please!
oveloading caused it
There is one on TH-cam somewhere. I saw it not too long ago. Had a similar problem to this flight... pilot who shouldn't have been carrying passengers, had some issue with not actually being rated for his license, I don't remember. Plus the plane was heavily overloaded but the passengers kept pressuring the pilot to take off anyway.
Yes! We want that!
His 2 year anniversary today R.I.P ❤️
The broker who organized the trip should be arrested and taken to jail.
Sala's prophetic last words are heartbreaking.
13:44 the bgm and the memory words for the pilot and passenger and sala's audio message to his family, the plane flying in the dark stormy night,i felt goosebumps. You have a gift for relaying more in your videos without words than what words would have. Thank you for your hard work.
I have watched so many of your air crash videos, but this made my heart sink the deepest, I don't know why.
My heart is broken, because he knew that something was off about this flight and he still took it 😭😭😭😭😢
The use of Microsoft Flight Simulator really adds to the immersion. Thanks for your hard work, so useful and entertaining at the same time!
Sala was a very nice , humble human being according to anyone . What a tragedy. All the financial battle that still endures between Nantes and Cardiff is really disgusting
So this pilot violated 5 regulations
But CO poisoning was the cause of the accident, and CO doesnt care about how many liscenses you have.
@@franciscopino7552 that’s understandable but regardless the plane should never have left the ground
@@prequeltothesequel4073 Yes, it should’ve not left the ground.
This guy just signed a multi million dolllar contract why not take a safe hired professional flight? why did this famous football star have to fly at night, in bad weather, over a large body of water, with some shady unqualified pilot?
@@BILLY-px3hw The money had not been transferred so at that time the deal was not complete
Moral of this story: before a flight, ask the pilot questions, lots of em like:
Will we be flying VFR or IFR or both? Do you have an IFR endorsement?
Do you have a commercial pilot endorsement?
How many hours have you accumulated on this type of aircraft?
Will we be flying at night?
What is the range of this aircraft and how much fuel will we be carrying?
If pilot or Pilots laugh condescendingly and tell you to not worry about it then don't get on the airplane.
WOW. I was impressed by the findings at the end of this. Initially, I was thinking, "Who arranged this death sentence? The pilot would've been practically blind!" - but the plane's age and CO2 as a factor never occurred to me. Or really even the fact that the pilot must've felt no choice but to attempt that trip back in the night, despite also knowing that it would not be safe.
It's very sad to hear the fear in a man's voice, calling home for the last time. It sounded like a machine picked up; I'll bet that message was saved for a long time.
The phone call, like he know something was coming. So sad...
Such a short end to such a promising life for the guy. Hope no one ever has to go such a gutting experience like him
Sala returned to Nantes on Saturday 19 January, on a plane arranged by football agent Mark McKay.[40] His intention was to return to Cardiff on Monday 21 January, in order to attend his first training session with his new club the following morning.[41] Sala had been invited to attend Cardiff's match against Newcastle United by manager Neil Warnock, but he returned to France to say goodbye to his Nantes teammates and collect personal belongings.[42]
On 21 January, the Piper Malibu aircraft, which was flying Sala from Nantes to Cardiff, disappeared off Alderney.[43] The same aircraft and pilot had flown Sala to Nantes two days earlier.[40][44] On 23 January, Channel Islands Air Search reported that there was "no hope" of finding any survivors in the water.[45]
An audio message, allegedly sent from the plane by Sala to his friends via WhatsApp, was released by Argentine media outlet Olé. The audio message translates as follows:[46]
Hello, my brothers, how are you? Boy, I’m tired. I was here in Nantes taking care of things, things, things, things, things, things, and it never stops, it never stops, it never stops. Anyway guys, I’m up in this plane that feels like it's falling to pieces, and I’m going to Cardiff. [It's] crazy, we start tomorrow. Training in the afternoon, guys, in my new team... Let's see what happens. So, how's it going with you guys, all good? If in an hour and a half you have no news from me, I don't know if they are going to send someone to look for me because they cannot find me, but you will know... Man, I'm scared!
Emiliano Sala - Wikipedia
You mean death? I have bad news for you...
He was 28 and a promising no. 9 for FC Nantes. No wonder Cardiff City splurged a whopping fee of €20M (high considering the club standards, though it played in EPL) and fate struck last moment.
It's hardly an experience for him is is it? Death isn't an experience - it's the end of experience.
@@jamesupton4996 but when you know you're close to your death, it's not the most enticing experience
A colour blind pilot? Really? Is it possible to be a pilot not being able to see colours? I am colour blind myself and I do not even drive because I do not feel safe and don't want to risk other people's lives. I'm shocked to know one may pilot a plane (with few restrictions) even being colour blind.
Responsibility is great personal trait, sadly - very rare. Respect.
color blind and to make matters even worse, almost 60 years old flying at night in an old on "its last leg" 35 year old plane with carbon monoxide leaking into cabin.
recipe for disaster.
It is possible. In daytime it doesn't matter. Night is different.
@@driver4011 It's not the point that he is 60 yrs. but more the fact that he is at that age with such a small amount of actual experience. I'm 59 myself and as an Alaskan Bush Pilot I'm probably more skilled now than over 80% of the pilots currently flying in Europe; don't even think that anyone except maybe Canadian Pilots are even close to what American Pilots are. Point is that with age should come experience.. don't start to learn "new tricks" when you are an "old dog".
My husband couldn't join the Air Force because of color blindness.
One aspect of this crash has been consistently overlooked. The transport arrangements to move Senor Sala between Nantes and Cardiff were made by the football agents Willie McKay and his son Mark, who were acting on behalf of Nantes. By failing to ensure that the flights were carried out in accordance with either the law of the land or the civil aviation regulations, Willie and/or Mark McKay were in breach of the Civil Aviation Act 2012. For reasons which are not clear, neither of them has ever been brought to justice for their actions, nor has either of them ever apologised for their involvement in this ghastly affair. Willie McKay was declared bankrupt in 2015 and is due to stand trial soon for fraud under the Insolvency Act.
This is so sad. And just by hearing and reading Emiliano Sala message to his family, it made it even sadder. I also remember watching him playing a match when he was still playing for FC Nantes.
This channel continues to amaze me. Wow
Theres so much money in football its hard to see why anyone would take such a chance. RIP
Fantastic video. You used FS2020 which made the video even more stunning than usual, and you even showed background information on Sala for the unfamiliar.
Your channel is one of the best resources for aviation safety. Although there are several channels that give in depth analysis and opinions, hardly any of those set the scene like yours does. That's key to LEARNING from these mistakes. It's too easy to say "oh i just simply won't fly in X or Y condition," but this channel puts you in the mindset of the people who accidentally get caught in those conditions.
"Estoy muerto"
Although he meant it as "I'm tired".. but mainly it means "I'm dead"..
And that is just eerie to hear.
Thanks for covering this one! I live in Jersey, an island that's a five minute flight from Guernsey and remembered when this whole thing happened, tragedy.
If I saw that was my plane I was taking I would’ve just bought myself a plane ticket for a commercial airliner
he was trying to save money
@@braziz28 cardiff should have footed the bill ...for a £15 million pound signing FFS !!!
@@serenityinside1 Cardiff did offer him a commercial airliner, but he declined. I don't know why. Maybe he wanted the experience of flying in a small plane. Anyway most of deaths from flight happen on very small planes. They are generally very light and cannot withstand strong wind. Regardless of how incompetent the pilot was this guy somehow has survived till 59 years of age. The aircraft was 35 years old. It should have never taken off. And the fact that they flied at night in this weather. Pure idiocy...
The plane in the video is not a PA-46 - more like a Bonanza. Google Piper Malibu or Matrix, and you'll see they are very nice, very expensive turbo-props.
@@serenityinside1 Cardiff had arranged a commercial flight but the agent had arranged this private flight. Cardiff still had to pay £15 million to Nantes. It was a sad day when Emiliano passed away.
The currents in the English Channel are strong so it is unsurprising that the pilot's body was never found
RIP Emiliano.
Sala knew what is going to happen after takeoff rest in peace.
this is a sad ending to 2 lives that never should have happened and the sick part is they never bothered to recover the pilots body as he wasnt famous enough to warrant returning it to his family.
disgusting on all fronts from start to finish
They simply couldn't find his body, also the pilot caused both deaths so I wouldn't waste tax payer's money trying to find him.
I Am your BIGGEST FAN 😎 I love all your videos
Sad football death, nice tribute
The music actually triggers goosebumps now.
Watched so many of three videos during quarantine
I always wake up in the morning and say to myself, is today the day for a new Flight Channel Video 😍 your videos are very powerful, educational and moving. Thank you for giving me something to look forward to.
R.I.P. Emiliano Sala and the pilot who went with him to infinity. Emiliano Sala you had so much left to give to the football world. I'm sorry that you were cut in your prime and after death your body was desecrated by glory seekers. You deserved so much more. May you always watch over the other footballers of the world.
I don't care what anyone says. If I was a top level, professional, millionaire footballer (which Sala was at the time of his tragic death), I would've taken one look at that "plane" and informed the pilot "Hi, thanks for coming but if it's OK with you, I'm going to check myself into a nice suite at the airport hotel, have good night's sleep and in the morning I will take a commercial flight to the UK in Business Class. Because there is no way in hell I am getting in that. Have nice evening. I need to inform my new Club I might be late for training tomorrow. Bye."
12:46 "The AAIB said [carbon monoxide] can 'reduce or inhibit a pilot's ability to fly an aircraft'" That's an understatement!
Amen to that. If Sala had 58% carboxy-haemoglobin in his blood, that would mean his body was operating under anoxic conditions. I don't have the equivalent numbers but I rather doubt anyone could function at all (even stay awake) when blood oxygen level drops to such a degree. It's likely the pilot was suffering from a similar amount which would account for his erratic flying.
@Kath Beck Smart (man?) the instructor. I've experienced mild effects of this when I was in an old car many years ago and even a tiny amount of CO (I'd forgotten how bad it is) feels pretty weird. Also it can take months to recover IF you survive it because the carboxy-haemoglobin is fixed and your body has to replace the blood cells with new ones. Either than or you'd need a blood transfusion. Not good either way.
All for the sake of a tenner.
Cheap bastards should be locked up!
I wouldn't take too much about CO2. The AAIB should have lifted the plane. Other owners of that type need facts.
@@flybobbie1449 It's in the video that piston planes are susceptible to this (which is a horrific thought) and while the plane Sala was in was obviously poorly maintained based on the reports I've seen, I think Ms. Beck's comment about her father's instructor rings truest. Don't assume the place is safe (from CO) take a damn meter!
We can't see it nor smell it but it kills quietly and quickly. You feel light headed, sleeping and rapidly pass out.
@@marcdraco2189 I have 15 thousand hours in such piston aircraft. If the heat came from the engine any CO2, which is odourless is usually accompanied with other oily smells.
I know i have been ill from it before. If this aircraft had a separate combustion heater, which i think they don't, then they could have been gassed without knowing. Lifting the aircraft from the sea bed would have answered that question, but the AAIB/CAA chose not to. Why?
Why has nobody learned from Buddy Holly? The list of folks dying with crap pilots or in crap conditions is a long one....😔
I thought Holly was hit by a munitions dump by aircraft returning from a sortie?
I fully agree. Nobody seems to learn.
Seems like History repeat itself
@@marcdraco2189 Over Clear Lake Iowa in 1959? Who were they bombing, Idaho?
I think you are confusing the Buddy Holly plane crash with the one that killed Glenn Miller in 1944..
35 year old junk small plane should have been scrapped years ago n pilot should have already been retired long ago.
It can sometimes be scary in a passenger airliner in bad weather - this must have been terrible.
Si Pie Man It was.
A lot of commenters here have stressed the pilots lack of experience and the bad weather. The real problem was the level of carbon monoxide and I am convinced that regardless of weather or flying skill they were doomed if they did not do something about the exhaust fumes. The carboxyhemoglobin aka COHb level in Sala’s body was 58%. 30% is considered severe carbon monoxide poisoning. The concentration was only increasing as they flew. They were about half way to their destination when they crashed. The pilot had to still be conscious since he tried to pull out of a dive but he could not have had any kind of good judgment even at the halfway point of the journey. I can’t imagine really flying the plane much further even with better conditions or with more flying skill.
Out of all of the crash videos that I have watched on this channel, this one is one of the few that irks me the most. This trip was a disaster from the very beginning. They placed that kid in grave danger. From the pilot to the plane to the weather and the thirst to get paid, so many factors that could have been prevented.
These real audio series are absolutely awesome! Could you do another CVR recording? I’m sure they’re hard to find but your videos have had me at the edge of my seat. Thanks
Tragic story. Your videos are amazing. Always done with extreme professionalism. Thank you!
The plane didn't sound too good on his audio recording
The plane sound in the video is the original?
@@ahmada7333 on the audio of the player talking to this family, yes.
@@dawsonje no like the sounds the plane is making
This is scary because the same day I was planning a flight to Guernsey....I called it off because of the weather reports....better to be on the ground wishing you was in the air, than the other way around!
One English man charged over this with the obscure charge of ''Endangering the safety of an aircraft'' Update:- Also just sentenced to 18 months in jail.
So heartbreaking hearing the messages to his family saying that he was scared. 💔💔😭😭
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So let me get this straight:
The pilot was not licensed to fly that type of aircraft.
The pilot was not licensed to fly at night.
The pilot was not licensed for instrument flight.
The pilot was not licensed for commercial flight. Nor was the aircraft licensed to fly commercially.
The pilot was not (alledgedly) considered competent to fly in bad weather.
The aircraft was in a bad state of repair.
This is, why u only fly with licensed companies with good reputations and ALWAYS check b4 booking.
I am, however, left with several questions:
Why would the pilot choose to knowingly violate so many rules, there for his own safety, risking his own life in the proces?
Who the fuck thought, it was a good idea to hire a completely unqualified pilot?
Who booked this "grey" flight?
How was the pilot even allowed to take off from Nantes? Did no1 ask for any documentation apart from a flight plan??
When this accident first happened, I felt sorry for the pilot, coz all the stories were about Sala, if the pilot was even mentioned, it was as a side note and usually as "the pilot". I dont feel sorry for him anymore. That "pilot" killed Sala with his negligence and willful lawbreaking. Sala's only fault was to trust, whoever booked this flight for him.
The pilot was licensed to fly the plane in the UK but not in France due to a technicality. They were not night rated and I believe their IMC rating had lapsed. While this pilot should have been ill advised to undertake this flight for a multitude of reasons, the reason for the crash and fatalities had nothing to do with the pilot’s skill/abilities and everything to do with a carbon monoxide leak into the cabin. It would not have mattered who was flying, the outcome would still have been death.
@@jtully79 I would agree if there were not so many violations. Quite possible that the tech service of aircraft was also not ideal and pilot closed his eyes on this.
@@AVlad-eg3ds you can assume all you like. It am not denying the many red flags that relate to this case but when it comes to cause and effect you need to be precise and look at the objective evidence. Assumptions count for nought.
If a guy who is unlicensed, drives a bus while under the influence of drugs and alcohol, drives dangerously and then the bus blows up due to defect not detected by maintenance and kills everyone... by your logic we say all of those red flags were contributory factors when they clearly are not.
CO is what killed the occupants. Contributory factors were; lack of a CO detector, a cold night meaning max use of cabin heat, potential maintenance issues.
@@jtully79 It is better than Sala should fly in bigger plane and more experience pilot so could be the accident may avoid.
The story states that the 'pilot' was not qualified to fly the Malibu.
I wonder based on what this statement is based. A Piper malibu may be legaly flown by any private pilot.
It's just that ensurance companie's often request a checkout (which may be done by any experienced pilot on the type).
For the rest of the story of course this whole flight was a collection of mishaps that go beyond believe.
According to the EASA the Piper Malibu requires a SEP license.
My God, it's heartbreaking to hear him talking. 😭🙏 RIP.
Flights under Visual Flight Rules (VFR) into flight under Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) by untrained pilot for IFR conditions is one of the biggest killers in general aviation.
Is it hard to trust the instruments? I don’t understand. You think you would just look at the screen and follow the instructions.
Chamberfox It’s something you have to train to do. When I got my instrument rating in 1972 it was a 40 hour course in an approved flight school. With out outside references your inner ear can be telling you one thing and you are actually doing something totally opposite. It takes a while to start believing the instruments instead of what your body is telling you. If the aircraft does no break up the lucky ones will break out of the clouds with enough altitude to save the aircraft and their own butt too.
Bill Morris, Yes, compare this crash with JFK Jr. who crashed again because he was an untrained pilot under IFR conditions , he was only proficient at flying under VFR, and the weather abruptly changed, and the afternoon turned into night, and he was flying to Martha's Vineyard in a thick coastal mist towards a cousin's marriage ceremony with his wife and sister in law, when eventually the small Piper Cherokee spiralled uncontrollably towards the sea, and all 3 occupants drowned. This was in July 1999.
juju bolinha I’m very familiar with the JFK Jr crash. He was trained for IFR and was about to take his check ride. There is a lot more to his crash than was reported in the news.
Reminds me of the 2018 Schoharie limo accident. One of the passengers texted another before the fatal crAsh explaining how the limo sounded like it was going to explode soon.
Wow. I didnt know the pilot was color blind... The whole accident was so avoidable :(
In so many ways!
Even if he were color blind, this was nor the cause or contributed to the accient. The cause was flying under IMC without qualifications and experience with the plane
I live in Guernsey and I remember that night very well and the weather was indeed horrendous, looking at the flight plan he flew right over my house, he could of easily crashed on land! He only cleared the island by a few miles!
He cleared it by 50/60 miles and landed near the middle of the channel, stop trying to attach yourself to this tragedy.
This reminds me of the Kobe Bryant heli crash. Pilots willing to risk lives for a few bucks more even when weather is poor for flying but the need to deliver sports VIP's is just too tempting to ignore the dangers. But to top it off, unqualified pilot and plane, expired plane license, color blindness, not IFR rated to fly at night, plane falling apart, etc. are just the perfect recipe for disaster. RIP Emiliano Sala.
A tragedy for both Pilot and passenger and for both families and friends.
The Pilots body ‘as yet’ was not found, with the passenger being recovered from the plane wreckage. If every accident is a lesson learnt then I hope the families can move forward knowing that such an accident is unlikely to very happen again.
Pilot not found - is a real oddity. He should have been strapped to his seat.
6:36 He tells his family he is very tired, CO poisoning taking effect.
What’s co poisoning ?
@@MrKhiladi768 CO is carbon monoxide, the gas in engine exhaust that can kill you. When it first starts taking effect it can make you feel sleepy. If you don't get fresh air at that point then eventually you will pass out, and then eventually after that you will die.
@@onemoremisfit oh so the victim doesn’t feel any pain right ?
@@MrKhiladi768 Maybe a headache but it generally sneaks up on you causes unconsciousness.
this could have been avoided so easily, rest in peace😔
Like replacing water with pillows?
@@rastachicagomataderos like not letting that one exact pilot fly the damn plane. Rest in peace to him too tho
just take the damn regular flight
@@rastachicagomataderos hmm, let me guess would a footballer who is worth millions in the game to fly in a tiny ass plane like that and that he was flown with a pilot who had many problems with flying at Night flying from France etc etc. And a small plane flying in bad weather that is a disaster in the making.
Great depiction of the event. THANK YOU for not having so many ads on this video!!
The fact that he said “estoy muerto” instead of something like “estoy muy, muy cansado” is so eery.
I tought the same. But, to be fair, it's a common expression in latin America, mostly in the southern cone of south America.