Updated w/ planes.
I took it to mean that as of that "crash", some(one) just died or evaded capture/made a successful escape.
I'm taking it as the former.
Jack Foust Matlock Jr. (born October 1, 1929)[1] is an American former ambassador, career Foreign Service Officer, a teacher, a historian, and a linguist. He was a specialist in Soviet affairs during some of the most tumultuous years of the Cold War, and served as U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991.
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