Man Indicted For Insurance Scams Involving Aircraft, Autos And A Boat

The pilot of a Beech Baron involved in a highly publicized ditching in the Gulf of Mexico in 2012 has been indicted for insurance fraud. Theodore Wright and two other men, Shane Gordon and Raymond Fosdick, have been charged with several counts as part of a larger investigation that also involved an old Citation, an exotic car and a boat. The Baron ditching garnered national headlines when Wright posted a video of himself bobbing around in the Gulf in a life raft after the ditching. An edited version of the video, shown below, was turned into a promotion for the case protecting the iPad that he shot it with. He told authorities he was flying from Texas to Sarasota, Florida, and was forced to ditch by smoke and fire in the cockpit.