Carbon monoxide poisoning likely played a key role in the fatal accident of a 1984 Piper Malibu carrying soccer star Emiliano Sala, according to a special bulletin issued by the U.K.’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) on Wednesday. As previously reported by AVweb, the aircraft went down in the English Channel 22 NM northwest of the island of Guernsey on Jan. 21, 2019, and no distress calls were received prior to the accident. Sala’s body was recovered from the wreckage, but pilot David Ibbotson’s remains have not been found.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/flight-safety/accidents-ntsb/carbon-monoxide-poisoning-linked-to-piper-crash