The pilot missing with footballer Emiliano Sala has today been named as a British father-of-three and gas engineer from Scunthorpe.


David Ibbotson, 60, was reportedly at the controls of the privately-owned Piper Malibu aircraft believed to have crashed into the sea near Alderney on Monday night.

The pilot, whose nickname is 'Dibbo', is married with three children and lives with his wife Nora near Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, and according to his Facebook account he checked into a hotel next to Nantes Airport on Saturday night.

He is an experienced pilot specialising in private flights and parachute expeditions but also is a qualified gas engineer running his own boiler repair company in North Lincolnshire.





This is the plane that Sala and the pilot were in when in vanished over the sea it appears to be registered to a company in Norfolk.





https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6621251/This-plane-like-falling-pieces-need-send-me.html

Today planes and lifeboats are again scouring the sea for the footballer and his pilot.


So far more than 1,155 square miles have been covered in the search for the missing aircraft.

Assuming it was my dear country this mishap happened. No one will know, searches won't start till after 30 days.
The president would set up committee first.
Then DSS will go to arrest the Aeroplane company.
Then Falana will accuse FAAN for negligence.
Then NEMA will demand 50billion for search party.
Minister of works, minister of transportation will visit the place where it happened.
The president will give 1million to the family.
Then a video will go viral on Twitter that the guy raped 3 girls.
Then after 8 months the search will start.

Signed,
Chairman,
The Freebasics Association of Nigeria (FAN)

He should have enter motor What is France to the UK

Rescuers say there's 'no hope' of finding pair and search becomes recovery operation.



Fans and supporters.

I know I cannot afford even the tire....But it is a Kabukabu Aircraft......

Rip Sala

It is really heartbreaking.. Sala's last message implied d aircraft was falling apart and asked for dem to come find him

Isoright

Na luck we dey get for this life self
Anything when we do fit result in death

So he mean say we are living to die


Make I smoke some weed joor
Abeg osazee give me that level make i tie one

So sad that his England sojourn ended before it started. Let's keep hoping even as we await the worst possible news.

It can only get better

Sala would have wished he never move to his new club if he was told this will happen to him. I just pity his family at home. They will be in agony now...All is well sha

Not even flights are safe.

BUHARI why?

So Cardiff no fit rent better private jet for their players?

ok

Maybe they were caught in the Bermuda triangle...

So plane can miss into tin air?



Engineer in d house explain

it's well tho.....
My question now is between Salah's family, Nantes and Cardiff City who is on the losing side...!!
Salah's family lost a family member
Nantes Lost a player but Money already in the bank
Cardifff City lost a player + €15m record signing.....

Those guys will be found mark my word today....

dbynonetwork:
BUHARI why?

M

Mariangeles:
Maybe they were caught in the Bermuda triangle...

Bermuda Triangle is located in the Atlantic Ocean....

So sad

Femich18:
Sala would have wished he never move to his new club if he was told this will happen to him. I just pity his family at home. They will be in agony now...All is well sha

He was already in Cardiff but flew back to say goodbye to team mates. Should have said goodbye through phone.
You can't stop death though. One can only know the formula to stop it after you are Dead

May His mercies prevail amen.

Then The Villagers around the crash area will demand millions to appease their gods

MCMXCVIII:

Assuming it was my dear country this mishap happened. No one will know, searches won't start till after 30 days.
The president would set up committee first.
Then DSS will go to arrest the Aeroplane company.
Then Falana will accuse FAAN for negligence.
Then NEMA will demand 50billion for search party.
Minister of works, minister of transportation will visit the place where it happened.
The president will give 1million to the family.
Then a video will go viral on Twitter that the guy raped 3 girls.
Then after 8 months the search will start.