Emotional Events In Abagnale's Life

These emotional events that drove Abagnale away lead to the beginning of his new life as a check- forger, impostor, and con- artist, which in the next five years he would make $2.5 million (Neil). One day while Frank was walking around New York trying to find a job, he saw a pilot and a co-pilot walking out of a hotel onto a crew bus with four stewardess laughing around them. This view gave him the idea to con his way into becoming a fake pilot. Later that night Frank Abagnale looked in yellow books for the Pan Am Airline (Abagnale 27-29). From here he was forward to the Well-built Uniform Company, on this phone call he said that he lost his uniform and needed a new one. The company responded saying that he could come and get a new one. The next morning Abagnale coned the seamster into getting him a new uniform. When his fitting was all done Abagnale wrote
He did this by reading flying magazines. Also by calling and doing face-to-face interviews pretending to be a Highschool Student from the school's newspaper (Abel). After all this research Abagnale decided to act like a deadheadIng pilot, which he acted like for the next two years. Here he flew deadhead around 1 million times and would stay in hotels and have all expenses paid by Pan Am (Abel). One reason why Frank was able to do this by not being detected was the airports low security. During all this Frank Abagnale also made thousands of dollars. He did this by writing false checks from Pan Am to himself and then distracting the bank teller as they cashed the check hoping they wouldn't notice (Walsh). In the movie Catch Me If You Can, got Frank’s pilot con right, minus some of the order of events. The producers probably thought of keeping to the true story because it would make good movie material. Also because what Abagnale did was so out there they couldn’t change the