The pilot whose plane crashed into Milan's tallest building killing himself and three others was a failed businessman who wanted to end his life, his son said in comments in today's daily La Repubblica.
The paper identified the pilot as Luigi Fasulo, who made a fortune in the airplane business then lost it all after becoming a self-styled investor.
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The damaged 'Pirellone' 30-storey building in central Milan
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He was reported variously as 65 or 67-years-old and said to live in Pregassona, a suburb of Lugano, Switzerland - not far from where the flight originated.
La Repubblicaquoted his son Marco and a friend, identified only as Franco, who both insisted the incident yesterday that immediately raised the spectre of a new September 11th-type attack was a suicide.
"What do you mean an accident? It was a suicide, a suicide, I'm telling you. There were people who wanted to ruin him, to destroy him financially, so he committed suicide," Mr Marco Fasulo said, without elaborating.
The friend Franco, meanwhile, recounted his last conversation with the pilot on Sunday. "I am ruined, they used up everything I had, it's a group located here, they got more than a million dollars (1.1 million euros) from me," the friend quoted Luigi as saying.
The aircraft, a light Piper Air Commander, crashed into the 25th and 26th floors of the landmark, 30-storey Pirelli tower in central Milan around 5.45 p.m. yesterday, sending shock waves in and outside the country.
AFP