after hearing of the accident mr henderson sent a series of messages. in one text, to the plane s engineer, he said not to say a word to anyone. responding to another the following morning, he wrote, need to be very careful. opens up a whole can of worms. keep very quiet. and, questions may be asked about his flying. mr ibbotson s license to fly a piper malibu aircraft had also expired two months before the incident. when asked by the prosecution, isn t the true situation that you didn t want anyone looking at how you were running these flights because you knew you were running them illegally, david henderson replied, there s probably some element of that, yes. today, david henderson has been found guilty of endangering the safety of an aircraft, an aircraft in which footballer emiliano sala and pilot david ibbotson were killed. tomos morgan, bbc news, cardiff crown court.
after hearing of the accident mr henderson sent a series of messages. in one text, to the plane s engineer, he said not to say a word to anyone. responding to another the following morning, he wrote, need to be very careful. opens up a whole can of worms. keep very quiet. and, questions may be asked about his flying. mr ibbotson s license to fly a piper malibu aircraft had also expired two months before the incident. when asked by the prosecution, isn t the true situation that you didn t want anyone looking at how you were running these flights because you knew you were running them illegally, david henderson replied, there s probably some element of that, yes. today, david henderson has been found guilty of endangering the safety of an aircraft, an aircraft in which footballer emiliano sala and pilot david ibbotson were killed. tomos morgan, bbc news, cardiff crown court.