Sharjah: Dhamia Faleh
The media revealed, for the first time, a video of surveillance cameras at the French Nantes-Atlantic Airport, showing the Argentine player, Emiliano Sala, before boarding the private plane for British Wales, and returning to it before he was killed following it fell in the North Sea.
And a report revealed the suspension of pilot David Aubustin, who was also killed in the tragic accident, as he described the plane as “worn out and that he would wear a life jacket during the flight.” Sala, 28, flew to sign his transfer contract from Nantes to Cardiff City, then returned on the fateful trip to France to bid farewell to his friends, and told them in an audio recording during the flight: “I am afraid, the plane looks like it is being torn to pieces.” Then he said: “I don’t know if Someone was going to look for me because they wouldn’t find my body.”
In an audio recording sent by the pilot, whose body was not found like the player, to his friend Kevin Jones, he says: “I took a football player from Cardiff, they had just bought him from Nantes for 20 million pounds I think, and they gave me the task of taking care of him with this worn out plane, usually The life jacket remains between the chairs, but I will definitely wear the life jacket tomorrow.”
Austin was not a professional pilot, but an amateur, and he was not allowed to carry passengers, or to fly at night, and he heard in an audio recording saying to his friend in the middle of the flight: “I am in the middle of the road in the North Sea. But I told you to know, this plane should be put in the landfill, the brakes on the left do not work.”
Pilot and businessman David Henderson, a private jet operator, was jailed last year for 18 months for using the Austin pilot, despite knowing he did not have a license to carry passengers.
