2 Plane Crash Victims Identified
Two men who were killed earlier this week after their vintage World War II airplane crashed into a canyon wall in Angeles National Forest were identified by the coroner’s department Thursday.
Francis William Elliot, 63, of Pasadena and Lorenzo Beccaris, 26, of Rome, Italy, died when Elliot’s AT-6 aircraft went down Monday in a rugged area of Green Valley, about 17 miles southwest of Lancaster, coroner’s spokesman Scott Carrier said.
Elliot was apparently giving Beccaris flying lessons in the two-seat training plane, but investigators do not know which man was flying at the time of the crash. Both men had commercial flying certificates and the plane could be flown from either the front or rear seats.
Beccaris was a pilot for Alitalia, an Italian airline.
A National Transportation Safety Board investigator said a final determination on the cause of the crash will probably not be made for several months.
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