Enrique Piñeyro (born December 9, 1956, in Genoa, Italy)[1] is an Argentine-Italian ex airline pilot turned film actor, producer, crash analyst, aeronautical physician, film director, and screenplay writer, working partly in Argentina.

His mother, Marcela, was a member of the billionaire Rocca family, which controls the industrial conglomerate Techint.

Following the plane crash, Piñeyro became somewhat of a public figure in retelling his experiences working at LAPA, which subsequently went out of business.

Piñeyro has been dubbed "the Michael Moore of Argentina" due to his public criticism of specific government corruption, and the favorable results attained from his filmmaking.

[4][5] In 2022, it was announced that a Boeing 787 that he owns and uses for humanitarian flights, would carry the words "No woman should be forced to cover her head", "No woman should be killed for not covering her head" and "No man should be hanged for saying this" and feature photos of Amir Nasr-Azadani, an Iranian football player, and of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman accused by Iran's morality police of not wearing a veil properly and who died while at their custody, in protest of Iran's laws dictating that women must wear veils to cover their heads.