The US financial advisor who attempted to fake his own death in a light aircraft crash will certainly not be elevated to the pantheon of criminal masterminds, after police yesterday revealed he’d left a bullet-point list of his fake distress call in the plane before bailing out.
Marcus Schrenker, 38, took off from Anderson, Indiana, on 11 January in a Piper PA-46 en route for Destin, Florida. Over Alabama, he sent a distress call saying the aircraft’s windscreen had “imploded” and that he was bleeding.
Two F-15 fighters were scrambled to assist, but found the plane flying on autopilot, with its door open and no sign of the pilot. It later crashed in a swamp near East Milton, Florida.
Schrenker actually came to earth near the town of Harpersville, Alabama, and subsequently had to escape law enforcement operatives who rumbled his identity after he obligingly showed them his FAA pilot’s licence.
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