 While scouting for locations in Japan, the chief production team was  nearly killed. On 5 March 1966, Producers Albert R. Broccoli (qv)  and Harry Saltzman (qv), Director Lewis Gilbert (II) (qv),  Cinematographer Freddie Young (I) (qv) and Production Designer  Ken Adam (qv) were booked to leave Japan on BOAC flight 911  departing Tokyo for Hong Kong and London. Two hours before their  Boeing 707 flight departed, the team were invited to an unexpected  ninja demonstration and so missed their plane. Their flight took off  as scheduled and twenty five minutes after take