A report into the plane crash that killed footballer Emiliano Sala has found that the pilot flew too fast and lost control while trying to avoid bad weather. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. The plane crashed into the English Channel on January 21 last year Sala's body was discovered in the wreckage three days later but Mr Ibbotson has never been found. Tributes left to Sala outside Cardiff City's stadium Fourteen months after a plane crash claimed the life of footballer Emiliano Sala, British air accident investigators are to publish Friday their final report on the tragedy. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. UK investigators have released its final report into what caused the plane to crash. Sala and his pilot were poisoned by carbon monoxide before their plane crashed into the English Channel, the star's toxicology report revealed. ""It was likely that the pilot's ability to control the flight was impaired to some extent by carbon monoxide poisoning," he added.Argentinian striker Sala, 28, signed for Cardiff City from French club Nantes on January 19, 2019, for £15 million.Mr Ibbotson flew him from Cardiff to Nantes so he could say goodbye to his former teammates later that day, before conducting the fatal return flight two days later when the plane plunged into the Channel.Sala's body was recovered but Mr Ibbotson has not been found.Neither Mr Ibbotson nor the plane were licensed for the flight to operate commercially but evidence showed he was to be paid a fee, the AAIB said.Unlicensed charter flight operations - known as grey charters - generally incur lower operating costs.Former football agent Willie McKay has said he paid for the fatal flight but did not choose the pilot or the plane.He has explained he was helping his son Mark, who was acting for Nantes, to complete the transfer.Alison Campbell, senior inspector for operations, said it was a dark night with "little or no" visible horizon. 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You can unsubscribe at any time.Emiliano Sala tragically passed away in a plane crash in January 2019David Ibbotson has not been found since the plane crashSala had just completed a transfer from Nantes to CardiffThe Piper Malibu plane that carried Emiliano Sala before his death "He said the resulting loads on the aircraft were "excessive", which caused it to then "break-up in flight. A man in his 60s from North Yorkshire was arrested in June on suspicion of manslaughter by an unlawful act in connection with the crash.But on Wednesday it was confirmed he would face no further action.A pre-inquest review is scheduled to be held at Bournemouth Coroner's Court on Monday.Cardiff City FC and FC Nantes remain in dispute over the £15m transfer fee for Sala.Cardiff have refused to pay the fee, claiming the Argentine was not officially their player at the time of his death.The Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland is expected to rule this summer on whether the Bluebirds should pay Nantes £5.3m - the first tranche of Sala's transfer fee - as ordered by football's governing body Fifa in September. Investigators into the fatal crash have released their findings in full from the plane crash which killed Sala and pilot David Ibbotson when they were flying from Nantes to CardiffDon't wait 30 years - sign up for our daily football email newsletter today!A final report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) concluded that the single-engine Piper Malibu aircraft suffered an in-flight break up while being flown too fast for its design limits.It added that pilot David Ibbotson, 59, was probably affected by carbon monoxide poisoning.Investigators found that a contributory factor in the crash was Mr Ibbotson having no training in night flying and a lack of recent practice in relying only on cockpit instruments to control a plane.Summarising the findings, Geraint Herbert, investigator in charge, said: "Control of the aircraft was lost during a manually flown turn and the aircraft descended rapidly accelerating. These are external links and will open in a new window Relatives of Sala and Mr Ibbotson have called for the wreckage to be salvaged to help find out what happened.The AAIB said it has not made another retrieval attempt due to the high costs involved, the information already collected and the risk the wreckage would "not yield definitive evidence".Meanwhile, Cardiff City continues to be locked in a legal dispute with Nantes over payment of the footballer's £15 million transfer fee.The Welsh club argue they were not liable for the full amount because Sala was not officially their player when he died.