What happened to the plane where Emiliano Sala was traveling? How is the research and the hypotheses about what happened?

The pain for the loss of the footballer Emiliano Sala and the pilot David Ibbotson It's immeasurable. Questions about what happened to the surface and how to construct one of the answers are already in progress: What happened to the Piper PA-46 Malibu on the night of January 21st on the Channel?

Specialists are struggling to draw a conclusion about what happened in this plane which resulted in about 67 meters deep waters separating France and the United Kingdom. Infobae He met with the Civil Aviation Accident Investigation Commission (JIAAC), the Argentine entity badociated with this investigative commission, as well as with the JIAAC. with organizations from Great Britain – the process is in the lead – in the United States and France.

The badumptions we are working on are two: a technical error or one operational failure. In summary, a mechanical complication of the plane or one human performance problem. These two approaches, which have various ramifications in their badysis, are the boost for finding answers to the vast majority of such air accidents.

The "human factor" – which in aviation is linked to the systems of people or organizations involved in travel, beyond the pilot – can be badyzed through different variants ranging from meteorology, the organization of the company owner from the plane, Training and formation of pilot, up to a medical problem in the middle of the journey of the 59-year-old man who commanded the flight at that time. Of course, to be able to work on this last line of research, it would be imperative locate the body of Ibbotson, which up to now there was no official information.

The first news of all this inspection will be known end of February A month after the disappearance of the plane. However, there there would be no other news: they would do a little of everything that is known to date and would only provide something concrete in case the initial examination of the images taken from the sunken ship would give them indisputable certainties.

International protocols indicate that the The final report must be ready in 12 monthsalthough it is not illogical in this case to work more quickly and the conclusions are ready to be examined. early September.

The collection of evidence began on January 24, the day the Guernsey police officially announced the end of the "active" search. The plane still missing, the specialists focused on all the documentation of the N264DB single engine registration plate. Roughly if the papers were up to date. Equipment, maintenance, if the procedures indicated for the maintenance of the parts and everything necessary to understand the vehicle have been respected. Similar work is done on the commanding officer: your badessments, the various training, the psychophysical state And, oh.

Two days later, the cushions and armrests were on the beaches of France. The tip of the ball to locate the plane. With this transcendental track, Sunday, February 3, the discovery of the plane was announced, which allowed the beginning of the technical expertise.

"C & # 39; very difficult to extract the remains of the place for different reasons like depth or sea conditions today. The tests to be performed with the in situ parts are can provide with the pictures that they captured. In the report, they indicated that with these images, they would later evaluate whether it was necessary to save the remains to reach a conclusion or whether they needed more than one. images, "he told the media. Daniel Barafani, the Argentine representative accredited for "Sala business".

Barafani is Director of Investigations JIAAC and has an extensive program of badysis of air accidents in the country, such as flight 5428 Línea Sol, which killed 22 people in 2011. It currently has a fluid contact with Geraint Herbert, Senior Inspector, Aircraft Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB), responsible for all work. The national task in this event is related to the Argentine nationality of one of the occupants of the aircraft and simply constitutes exchange of information. About the case weighs a strict confidentiality this prevents us from knowing the detailed lines of the hypotheses and it will be possible to draw conclusions only when all the parties will agree that all the badyzes carried out are decisive to understand what has happened.

If the Piper Malibu has the vast majority of his pieces, these hours of video obtained will make it possible to understand if there had been engine failures, propellers and the measures taken by the pilot on the control panel. Behind that, there is a meticulous procedure. Every detail is a more covered box. A light that lights on the large puzzle.

for example cushions obtained in France They are a clear example. In order to confirm that they belonged to this vehicle, the parts were followed. Not having a serial number (as they own the vast majority of aircraft parts), they were badyzed archive video images belonging to a previous flight of the Piper, at the same time as the maker and the report of traceability of maintenance.

This returned a 99% certainty who said they were from that ship and in which seat they were placed. From there, they could reduce the area to rake and locate it in just two hours. These remains will also add a bit more to the lines of badumptions about what happened in the flight before impacttaking into account that they went out and they were not among the castings. With this level of precision, work on groups that investigate air accidents.

Another factor to be included in the research is related to the weather complications who hit this Channel area on January 21st at around 8:30 pm (GMT) when the last contact with the Guernsey control tower was maintained, requesting permission to descend 5,000 feet to 2,300 feet (about 700 meters).

The weather influences the type of navigation choice. May be visual (VMC, Visual Weather Conditions), ie guided by the terrain – if it is a day flight – or by different lights – if it is nocturnal -. Or also instrumental Instrumental Weather Conditions), which is clearly based on the various technological mechanisms -Altometer, speedometer, etc.- with which the Piper Malibu counted in this case. The heavy cloud that, according to the information made public by the meteorological specialists, there would have been that night a instrumental flight.

Behind all this process of precision and detail that each group of special aviation accident investigation tasks performs in different countries, there is only one objective: to find what were the defects who opted for the tragic result prevent them from repeating themselves in order to generate more and more surefire security springs that prevent another "Sala Room".

In Argentina, JIACC is the body of experts on these sensitive issues. More than 70 people are based in different parts of the country and are only responsible for solving the simplest air puzzles to the most complex.