'Fake pilot who joined cabin crew in cockpit' is arrested in plot mirroring Spielberg's hit film Catch Me If You Can

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2207422/Italian-police-arrest-man-posed-pilot-joined-cabin-crew-budget-airline-cockpit.html

By Nick Pisa
Mail Online
23 September 2012

A man who posed as a pilot and joined cabin crew in a plane cockpit has 
been arrested, Italian police said today.

The unemployed 32-year-old man, whose real identity was not released, 
created a fake profile for himself on Facebook and called himself Andrea 
Sirlo, even posting pictures of himself wearing a uniform and Aviator 
sunglasses.

To complete the illusion he made up fake identity cards and even sent 
himself imaginary comments from dozens of fake cabin crew friends who 
expressed their 'delight' at being rostered with him on flights.

Police held the man in the bar at Turin's Caselle airport and revealed 
details of the elaborate scam at a press conference - as they compared 
it to the hit Leonardo Di Caprio film Catch Me If You Can in which he 
posed as a fake pilot and con man who flew more than one million miles 
around the world in the 1960s.

Officers said they believed he had flown in the cockpit of at least one 
flight between Munich and Turin in October last year and a link on his 
Facebook page highlighted the trip on a low budget airline called Air 
Dolomiti but did not take command of the plane.

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