Tancredi Fassini
Tancredi Fassini-Camossi (27 December 1900 – 4 September 1943) was an Italian professional ice hockey defense who played for the Italian national team. Personal life. Fassini served as an engineer and pilot in the "Regia Aeronautica" during the Second World War. On 4 September 1943, after hearing about the death of his mother at Pisa in an Allied bombing raid 5 days earlier, Fassini took off in a stolen aircraft to fly to Pisa. During the flight, he crashed and was killed.