 He was a passenger on an aircraft that crashed on May 6, 1982; his body was recovered on May 14.Salvatore Frank Ruggiero was born in East New York, Brooklyn, to a first generation Italian immigrant John Ruggiero Jr. from Torre de Ruggiero in Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy and an Italian-American woman named Mary Dellacroce who lived in Howard Beach, Queens.Mary was the biological sister of Gambino crime family underboss Aniello Dellacroce.