These new pictures showing the wreck of Emiliano Sala's doomed plane were released by the Air Accident Investigation Branch today. Pictured here is the cockpit
New underwater pictures of Emiliano Sala plane in 'three parts' are revealed as report finds British pilot - who 'made a string of basic errors' - descended and then 'tried to climb rapidly' before crash
Air Accidents Investigation Branch releases new pictures of Emiliano Sala's doomed plane on the seabed
Piper Malibu shattered into three pieces, its wings were snapped, the engine thrown out and tail vanished
David Ibbotson didn't have the licence to take paid passengers on plane also without commercial flight status
Booked to take Sala from France to Cardiff after £15m transfer but plane vanished at 8.15pm on January 21
Around 15 secs before fatal crash plane plunged at a rate of 7,000ft per minute - equivalent to around 90mph
Pilot not allowed to fly in bad weather - but took plane into a winter storm that may have frozen instruments
Eerie new underwater photographs of Emiliano Sala's shattered plane lying 220ft down on the bed of the Channel were released today as it was revealed its part-time pilot plunged sharply moments before the crash and had made 'basic errors' before take-off.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has released its interim report into the January 21 disaster off the coast of Guernsey and shows the terrifying final minutes of the doomed flight as the aircraft yo-yoed up and down before smashing into the sea at high speed.
The Piper Malibu was 'destroyed' by the impact of the crash and split into three parts with the engine thrown from the cockpit, the wings smashed and the tail and fin missing completely, a robot sent to the seabed has found.
Today's extraordinary report also reveals that in the last 15 minutes of the doomed flight the pilot David Ibbotson descended sharply four times telling air traffic control he was struggling with visibility.
Around 15 seconds before the fatal crash he plunged 2,400ft from 4,000ft to 1,600ft at a rate of 7,000ft per minute - equivalent to around 90mph - and then Mr Ibbotson desperately tried and failed to 'climb rapidly' before hitting the water.
The official probe has also revealed the part-time pilot Mr Ibbotson, a gas engineer from Humberside, was not qualified to fly paying passengers with his private licence and the owners of US-registered plane had failed to apply for permission to run commercial flights.
Investigators have said the plane sank to the bottom within 30 metres of losing radar contact 21 miles off the Channel Islands. Mr Sala's body was in the fuselage but the pilot Ibbotson has not been found.
Source : dailymail.co.uk
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