He was a member of the Windsor Flying Club, in Windsor, Ontario. ****Two days after the crash, on Oct. 31, the Windsor Star ran a story identifying Callan as the dead pilot. ****After Callan’s arrest in 1997, a reporter from the Windsor Star went to his mother’s house. '” Dave Gillies, the club president in 2013, told the Windsor Star after the crash. ****Michael Callan — aka Leo Piloto Leon — was a bank robber, celebrity obsessive and frankly, an unpleasant man, according to many who knew him.
Source: National Post September 23, 2016 18:11 UTC