PILOT SPIN
Pilot Zone => Pilot Zone => Topic started by: Lucifer on March 16, 2019, 06:16:58 AM
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https://www.gazettextra.com/news/nation_world/pilot-lived-a-mysterious-double-life-then-a-plane-crash/article_b3ec55c1-bbfc-5393-a00e-97cf77e534ad.html
RENO, Nev. — Jordan Aaron was the president of a Carson City sushi restaurant who once ran for justice of the peace in Arizona. Antonio Pastini was the brash ex-Chicago cop who befriended a brothel mogul and spun yarns of a bare-knuckled youth in the Windy City that read like a cross between “Goodfellas” and “The Outsiders.”
They were one and the same person.
He used two names and two Social Security numbers. He kept different driver’s licenses and bank accounts under the two names, an ex-wife alleged. The ex-wife — one of four — said in court filings that he kept multiple identities to hide money, and she hinted that he had “trouble with the law.”
But he might have lived out his days simply as Tony Pastini, the garrulous retired cop, had his twin-engine Cessna not plummeted 7,800 feet on Feb. 3 into an Orange County, Calif., suburb, killing him and four people who were on the ground.
From the smoldering wreckage, investigators plucked a police badge belonging to Retired Chicago Patrolman #15599. That discovery would help unravel the threads of a life story Pastini spent three decades crafting. The 75-year-old, it turned out, had never been a Chicago cop, though it appeared he wished he had been.
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This crash got a lot of play on the red board. Dunno if the guy really led a double life, though things did sound a bit hinkey. I wouldn’t trust an ex-wife’s word for anything, my buddy’s BSC ex said the same shit about him.
The crash was rather mysterious as well, if I’m remembering right. Even if the guy was rotten he wasn’t a bad stick. Was it night IFR around rocks? That could explain things.
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I remember that crash. It was a bit weird. What Cessna was it, a 414? Did the NTSB release their findings yet?