let’s get some other news today and in early 2019 the argentinian footballer emiliano sala was looking forward to life as a premier league footballer with
cardiff city before he was unexpectedly and tragically killed in a plane crash as he was travelling by plane from nantes to the welsh capital the pilot
david ibbitson also died when the aircraft plunged into the channel a new audio given to the bbc the concerns that the footballer had before boarding can
be heard first hand kaylee thomas has
this exclusive report
this is the last time emiliano saller
and david ibbitson were seen alive
for the first time we can show you cctv
footage from january the 21st 2019 as
the footballer and pilot go through
airport security
these were final checks before the
striker flew from nantes to wales to
become a premier league player at
cardiff city earlier david ibbertson is
seen on the runway preparing the plane
ahead of the flight everything was going
to plan and he sent this video to a
pilot friend
but in a phone call to the same friend
the recording of which has been obtained
by the bbc
david ibbitson raised concerns about the
plane i picked a football up from uh
he’s
now
about 20 million pounds worth of
something
and entrusted me to pick him up in a
dodgy marriage
normally has a knife jacket sitting in
your seats but tomorrow we’re wearing
the life jacket that’s for sure
this aircraft i think it’s got to go
back in the hangar might be your last
chance to have a good old chat with me
there’s an old opening tomorrow
quite a bomb shall ever take to actually
hear it in davidson’s own words and to
hear that he was concerned about the
flight 24 hours earlier
i’d consider that absolutely explosive
frankly i mean a pilot has ultimate
responsibility for the safety of the
individual flight and i think davidson
knowing what he knew could easily have
decided that the flight wasn’t safe
david iberson should never have taken
the job to fly emiliano saller as he
wasn’t a commercial pilot and couldn’t
legally fly at night
his concerns about the plane were echoed
by his passenger
emiliano often came to this small house
on the outskirts of nantes to see his
friend and mentor mary jan
he described the plane as a cuckoo
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emiliano sent this last voice message to
his friends from inside the planet
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give me everything
the aircraft starts taxiing towards
runway three it’s scheduled to land in
cardiff just two hours later
it never arrived
the depths of the english channel
the plane’s final resting place
for the first time we can show you
moving pictures of the wreckage in a
tragedy that touched a number of lives
as investigations and court proceedings
continue and as two families mourn the
loss of loved ones
we now have more insight into what
happened in the hours before
that fateful flight kaylee thomas bbc
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