Talk:BOAC Flight 911

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[edit] James Bond Reference

Some people may be wondering why I placed this article in the 'James Bond' category, so I will explain.

At the time of the flight, Cubby Broccoli, Harry Saltzman, Ken Adam, Lewis Gilbert and Freddie Young intended to leave Japan on Flight 911 after their scouting trip for You Only Live Twice (film), but canceled their tickets at the last moment to see a ninjutsu demonstration.

This is important because had they gotten on that plane, we would have lost some of the people who brought us this franchise for over 40 years.

Anyway, I placed two citations for this in the article for anyone who is interested. Also, there are references to this crash in the 'You Only Live Twice' movie article here at Wikipedia.

And003 (talk) 04:06, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

If true, that flight otherwise would have killed the two founding partners of Danjaq and Eon Productions, as well as the production designer, the film director, and the director of photography of You Only Live Twice.

I say "if true," because page 211 of Cubby Broccoli's posthumously published autobiography quotes him as having said that he and Ken Adam had been scheduled to leave Tokyo on Flight 911, but that Broccoli canceled that reservation for the two of them when he learned that only on the day of that flight could he see "an Army film . . . of the Ninja Fighters" that "I must see, and you must see."

~~ Wortschätzer (talk) 00:40, 7 June 2008 (UTC)