Before the doomed aircraft hit the ground, he managed to write a farewell note to his wife, Yukiko Kashiwagi.

The English rugby team took an Air France Boeing 727 instead of the doomed aircraft.

The doomed aircraft had reportedly carried a flight data recorder, which is unusual for a USAF fighter.

"Crash in Colorado County/Attendant on doomed aircraft had resigned to take a new job."

At the time of the accident, no other trijet airliner was in production aside from the doomed aircraft, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11.

The North Korean pilot bailed out, but his observer, who was either dead or badly wounded, remained in the doomed aircraft.

On 31 August 1966, a Navy plane was hit by antiaircraft fire over Haiphong, and the pilot bailed out of his doomed aircraft directly over the enemy harbor.

He then deliberately directed the doomed aircraft into a German Panzer column, performing the first "fire taran" of the German-Soviet War.

The torpedoes launched by the doomed aircraft failed to hit their mark and sped off past the American ships.

General Walls received a boarding card for the second flight, which departed Kariba 15 minutes after the doomed aircraft.