Emiliano Sala: Flight organiser jailed for 18 months

Henderson,
67,
was
last
month
found
guilty
of
endangering
the
safety
of
an
aircraft.

Sala
was
on
his
way
to
Cardiff
City
on
January
21,
2019,
after
signing
from
Ligue
1
club
Nantes
for
£15million
(€20m)
when
his
plane
came
down
over
the
English
Channel,
killing
the
striker,
28,
and
the
pilot,
Ibbotson,
59.

The
court
was
previously
told
Henderson
arranged
the
flight
with
football
agent
William
McKay
and
asked
Mr
Ibbotson
to
fly
the
plane
as
he
was
in
Paris
on
holiday.

Mr
Ibbotson
–
who
did
not
hold
a
commercial
pilot’s
licence
–
was
not
qualified
to
fly
at
night
and
his
rating
to
fly
the
single-engine
Piper
Malibu
had
expired.

A
jury
of
seven
men
and
five
women
were
told
that
moments
after
finding
out
about
the
incident,
Henderson
contacted
numerous
people
to
ask
them
to
stay
silent,
saying
it
would
“open
a
can
of
worms”.

The
jury
took
seven
and
a
half
hours
to
come
to
a
verdict
before
Henderson
was
convicted
at
Cardiff
Crown
Court,
where
he
returned
on
Friday
to
be
sentenced.

Henderson
was
given
18
months
for
endangering
the
safety
of
an
aircraft,
along
with
a
three-month
sentence
to
be
served
concurrently
for
attempting
to
discharge
a
passenger.

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