| rdfs:comment | - Lao Che Air Freight owned a Ford Tri-Motor for cargo flights across Asia. It had a small cockpit for two pilots, a main cargo area, and a separated area in the tail. In 1935, one such flight was scheduled to depart from Shanghai's Nang Tao Airport in the evening, when Earl Weber booked passage for Indiana Jones, Short Round, and Willie Scott on the first available flight from the city - and it happened to be on the Ford Tri-Motor, carrying a load of poultry to Bangkok, Siam.. As Jones and his friends hurried aboard, the pilot took off, leaving Jones' pursuers - Lao Che's associates on the ground. Jones used the small tail area to change from his tuxedo into his adventuring clothes before falling asleep. As the plane traveled over the countryside, they passed near to the Great Wall of China.
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| abstract | - Lao Che Air Freight owned a Ford Tri-Motor for cargo flights across Asia. It had a small cockpit for two pilots, a main cargo area, and a separated area in the tail. In 1935, one such flight was scheduled to depart from Shanghai's Nang Tao Airport in the evening, when Earl Weber booked passage for Indiana Jones, Short Round, and Willie Scott on the first available flight from the city - and it happened to be on the Ford Tri-Motor, carrying a load of poultry to Bangkok, Siam.. As Jones and his friends hurried aboard, the pilot took off, leaving Jones' pursuers - Lao Che's associates on the ground. Jones used the small tail area to change from his tuxedo into his adventuring clothes before falling asleep. As the plane traveled over the countryside, they passed near to the Great Wall of China. Determining that killing Jones was worth the cost of the plane, Lao Che signaled the pilot and co-pilot to ditch the plane. After refueling in Chungking, the plane traveled west instead of south towards the scheduled destination. While the passengers slept, the pilots dumped the fuel, took the only parachutes aboard and jumped to safety over the eastern Siwalik range. Jones and his companions awoke, realized that a crash was unavoidable, and jumped out of the plane with an inflatable raft. The plane crashed into a mountaintop near the Pindari Glacier. After the encounter, Jones found an instruction manual for a Ford Trimotor and kept it in his journal, along with a note to learn how to fly a plane. By 1938, he had learned how to fly a plane, but not land. In the summer of 1943, Jones and George McHale flew out of Port-au-Prince airport with the Heart of Darkness pearl aboard another Ford Trimotor, after surviving a dangerous adventure on Zile Muri-yo.
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