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Italian police have arrested a 32-year-old man who used a fake to try to get to fly in the cockpit of a plane at Turin airport. The unemployed Italian was at the check-in while trying to board an Air Dolomiti as the third pilot. The airline is part of Germany’s national carrier Lufthansa. Police have to name the man, but he was operating under the name of Andrea Sirlo. He was wearing a pilot’s uniform and was carrying identity cards that claimed he was a qualified aviator. Police searched his bag and found more pilot uniforms as well as fake resumes, airline and an airport staff parking . He has been with breach of airport security and impersonation.

Investigators have discovered that “Mr Sirlo” has successfully off his scam at least once before. Police said: "On at least one in 2012, he as a pilot of a foreign commercial airline, and with a fake name succeeded in flying as the third pilot in the ." A search of MyFlightBook.com, a website that flight details, also that a pilot named Andrea Sirlo from Munich airport to Turin on 23 October, 2011. Sirlo said he was by the 2002 Leonardo DiCaprio movie “Catch Me If You Can”. In the film, DiCaprio plays a real-life con who flew over one million miles on over 250 flights in the 1960s. “I saw that film and I wanted to be like [that guy]," Sirlo told police.