To: Director, Organized Crime Section
Fm: Leader, Evaluation Team Three
Subj: Falconi Family (Current Status)
Attached is the official transcription of the Log Book found at the site of the crash of Angelo Falconi's Gulfstream, along with the bodies of three of his lieutenants. Our interpretation is that the body found in the exploded cockpit was Falconi, in spite of the Mexican Government's position that it was the pilot of the aircraft. The logbook was under his body, obviously intended to be consumed by the explosion. The military records for Donald Foreman, FAA license 729544.32, confirm that the writer of the log must have been Lt. Cmdr. Foreman.
Flight Log(standard format, bound, fifty page)
Point of Departure: Acapulco International Destination: Miami International
Pilot: Donald L. Foreman
Copilot: none
1300hours, 14 September, 1994
I want the record to show I protested the insistence of the owner of this aircraft in beginning this flight. By the time his wife, daughter, and Bruno Pisseli had embarked, Hurricane Eloise was too close to our flight path for safe operation. I also protested taking off without a coplilot, conceding that it had become my common practice to solo on flights to Mexico for Mr. Falconi. The Gulfstream is an easy aircraft to manage, except in heavy weather, when it's high speed design becomes a disadvantage.
Mr. Falconi insisted. I therefore filed a flight plan direct to Miami, hoping to be able to outrun the hurricane. I took these actions under duress, amid threats of physical harm. Mrs. Falconi also asked me to "Get her out of here." Takeoff is scheduled for 1330.
1610hours
I have been forced to change course to the South and West, trying to find the safe quarter of the storm, and giving up making Miami. There should be no problem catching the winds for a safe passage to Columbia. I will not file a flight plan amendment until the best vector is confirmed.
I'm not sure what time it is. It's dark, I'm writing by flashlight, and have lost my airplane. It handled as well as could be expected when the starboard engine failed, allowing me to glide to two thousand feet from twenty, but I could not control descent when one hundred mph winds caught us out of the eye. That it held up during the water landing, with the crash into the huge old Banyan tree that knocked out all the radios is a tribute to it's airworthiness. Mrs. Falconi and her daughter are fine but for some minor bruises. My left arm is badly torn, but I think we will be able to find the first aid kit at dawn, assuming the winds die down, and should be able to treat my wounds. Bruno was in the head when we crashed, not belted. He is unconscious, and looks in bad shape. I will report further when a less impeded inspection is possible.
First day
Well. It's bad. Bruno has internal bleeding, I fear. There seems to be a massive hematoma in his head, and I think his right leg is broken. The radios are all out, though I will try to piece things together. I've found several batteries, all still intact. Both the women are well. Amazingly, all our luggage survived the crash.
We appear to be on a tropical beach, probably on the Columbian border. When the engine blew, I think it had been tampered with, we were just passing over the border, but I can't be sure. The eye of a hurricane plays tricks with avionics. I never broadcast a Mayday, and hadn't yet filed a new flight plan. I have told Doris and Julie we may be here for a while.
Second Day
We walked to the top of the nearest hill this morning, they both insisted on coming though they slowed me down. All I can see is more forest, stretching at least ten miles, and it's hard going. Although I would try to walk out, the ladies would have more problems, and don't want to. I've told them there was no distress signal, the homing device that should have been in the lifeboat is inexplicably missing, and about all we can do is set off a flare if we see an aircraft. It is ominous that I haven't seen one all day. I'm beginning to think this may be more a diary than a log. We could be here a long time, though Angelo will try to find us, I suppose. Maybe to be sure we're dead, the bastard. Given that, I want to describe things in a little more detail, particularly personally. Maybe as much for my benefit as anything else.
I've worked for him for two and a half years. I mustered out of the Navy into a soft market for jobs, though it looks as though United is going to hire me in October, and I'm anxious to get away from this assignment. For one thing, he's a pig. He treats Doris like dirt, and she's a sweet woman, even though her career as a pornstar might suggest otherwise. She had never confided in me much, though there had always been a certain chemistry, until just after takeoff. She came up and sat in the second chair.
"I'm sorry, Don. I know we shouldn't have flown, but the rat bastard wants to play with those filthy Mexican whores, and I didn't want to hang around and watch. Plus, if Julie stayed around she'd get aids before long, she's so fucking loose. Goddamn it, goddamn it." She was crying softly. As we climbed, and I reset the radios, I asked her "Why don't you leave him, honey? Can't be much fun for you."
I could feel her eyes boring into me, though I was concentrating on the instruments, and the radar. On long range scan, the long fingers of clouds were already showing up. "Same reason you gave in, Don. The price of leaving him is probably, you know, terrible." I just flew, feeling strange to be suddenly in her confidence, and caught her looking over her shoulder at Bruno. He was probably eyeing Julie, who had recently begun to really flaunt her adolescent charms. Her mother's body, but her dad's big, soft, deceptively kind eyes.
Doris is an awfully attractive woman, especially for someone with a sixteen year old. You've probably seen either pictures or one of her movies. Blonde, with a uniquely Playboy-like body, enhanced after Julie was born by some implants less for size than uplift. She'd always favored shorter hairdos, and her innocent face had made her a huge hit. But Angelo changed all that. He insisted she quit the business, but then used to show some of her films to guests, then made her show off her tits to those pimply faced bastards. I had seen him do it once, and had the impression it was a regular thing.
But I felt badly enough working for a mob guy, even though I never saw anything illegal. I didn't find out who the real owner was until a week after being hired, and accepting my first paycheck. His name didn't ring a bell anyway, my last tour was in India. We didn't get much of that kind of news there. So I gritted my teeth, and tried to be nice to Doris and Julie, even though I had to restrain myself from popping Angelo a couple of times. I'd had a lot of hand to hand training, and most of his goons were long on size, and short on quickness. The one time I'd had to deck one of them, they all saw, and avoided trouble with me from then on.
After a while, Angelo started calling me "hero". He found out about my DSC somehow. It came from a clandestine Seal operation which had gone wrong, and I'd had to pull three guys out of the water and fly them back to the Carrier. He always sneered, as though I was a fool for risking so much for what he always called "a government more bent than I am." Lately, I've caught him staring at me, in an unpleasant way.
But from then on, on long flights, both Julie and Doris liked to get me to tell war stories. I don't like doing that, but they both would get that misty look in their eyes, and I'm human, after all. They would make me tell about the helicopter exercise almost every time. And the one about landing the jet on a highway in Kuwait, blowing up five tanks with air to air rockets. You aren't supposed to do that, but since it worked, I got a commendation.