UNITED KINGDOM. (THECOUNT) — Footballer Emiliano Sala and his pilot had been exposed to harmful levels of carbon monoxide in the cockpit of their private plane when it crashed into the English Channel, it was revealed today, dailymail is reporting Wednesday.
The 28-year-old Argentinian striker was killed on January 21 when a plane carrying him crashed two days after he had signed a $15 million transfer to Cardiff City from French club Nantes.
The UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch said that both he and pilot David Ibbotson, 59, whose body has not yet been found, had been exposed to harmful levels of carbon monoxide.
Daniel Machover, lawyer for the Sala family, said today: ‘That dangerously high levels of Carbon monoxide have been found in Emiliano’s body raises many questions for the family.
‘How he died will be determined at the inquest in due course. The family believe that a detailed technical examination of the plane is necessary.
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