Fugitive Flight May Have Been Illegal Charter - AVweb

in 2019 a star football player was a passenger in a Piper Malibu which crashed in the English Channel en route from Nantes in France to Cardiff in Wales. He was travelling after a transfer fee of @15million. The inquest found carbon monoxide poisoning in the body of this otherwise fit young man. That of the pilot was never recovered. However it transpired that the pilot had no Commercial licence, was not cleared for night flying and the charter had been arranged illegally. The man responsible for the charter was sentenced to 18months in prison for breaking Air Navigation Law. No comfort for the family of the star footballer.