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The story goes that [Frank Tallman] was flying a B-25 in the Catch 22 filming. He had just
about finished when the director asked Tallman for "just one more pass for
protection". He was killed on that last pass.

Frank Tallman died April 15, 1978, by flying into a ridge in
bad weather near Palm Springs.

His partner at TallMantz, Paul Mantz, died during filming of a scene
for "Flight of the Phoenix" a few years earlier.