The owner of a plane which crashed into the sea, killing professional footballer Emiliano Sala, said she had previously ordered the pilot involved not to fly the aircraft.
Fay Keely said she had bought the aircraft through her family's company, Cool Flourish Ltd, under advice from David Henderson in 2015, from which time he became the plane's operator.
Henderson, 67, who is on trial at Cardiff Crown Court accused of endangering the safety of an aircraft, was in charge of the maintenance and hiring out of the single-engine Piper Malibu plane, and choosing appropriate pilots, the jury was told.
David Henderson, 67, is on trial at Cardiff Crown Court having been charged with endangering the safety of an aircraft as well as several other aviation-related offences related to the fatal January 2019 crash which claimed the lives of Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson, 59
Cardiff Crown Court heard David Ibbotson, right, had been banned from flying the aircraft by its owner Fay Keely had been notified by the Civil Aviation Authority that he had previously infringed two aviation rules while in the air
Emiliano Sala, pictured, was onboard the chartered aircraft flown by Mr Ibbotson when it crashed into the English Channel while he was being transported from his former club Nantes to Cardiff, where he had just signed a
