Football Tragedy | Here’s What Really Happened During Emiliano Sala’s Fatal Flight [Real Audio] 

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.

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wasn't licensed to carry passengers for profit, the pilot wasn't licensed to fly that aircraft and his license was out of date, the pilot wasn't even familiar with the plane he was flying.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.

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 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

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?

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 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.

*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

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.

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

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..

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.

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 !

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

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.

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.

Shouldn’t fly cheap

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 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.

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).

💯 isn’t that what happened with the 737 MAX? Shame to Boeing...

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.

The legendary comment for this video. True 500%.

Money rules the world

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.

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..

@@carlfichtner8148 Oh stop being a div and keep quiet. They're only trying to send some comfort message online that his loves ones may one day read. When you lose somebody close to you one day you might just wanna do the same

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

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.

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...

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 💰

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.

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.

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!

Yeah. VFR AND IFR license or go home. I agree with this one.

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"

Good choice

Yes, Aaliyah please!

oveloading caused it

There is one on RU-vid 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!

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 RU-vid. 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.

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.

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.

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

He cleared it by 50/60 miles and landed near the middle of the channel, stop trying to attach yourself to this tragedy.

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.

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

Si Pie Man It was.

.........and your club made a massive show of grieving for “their” player, then “welshed” on the transfer fee owed to F C Nantes.