Catherine Paulson, 78, stands in front of her Yorba Linda, Calif., home that has a piece of aircraft wreckage piercing the roof Monday, Feb. 4, 2019. She said she wasn't home when the plane went down and a piece landed in the tree right above her roof Sunday. (AP Photo/Amy Taxin)
There’s a mystery growing around a deadly plane crash in Southern California that killed five people. Investigators say pilot Antonio Pastini had credentials identifying him as a retired Chicago police officer, but the Chicago PD has no record of Pastini ever being with the department. His daughter, Julia Ackley, says he was visiting her for the weekend before the crash.
Authorities say his Federal Aviation Administration pilot’s license is real. The small plane Pastini was flying Sunday broke apart midair and caused a house to go up in flames in Orange County, leaving Pastini and four other inside the home dead.
