When our plane touched down on the water it became obvious that something was amiss, but none of us in the plane knew what it was. ... We later learned that all the nineteen passengers in the non-smoking compartment had been killed. When the plane had bit the water a hole had been made in the plane and the water had rushed in. I had told a friend at Oslo who was finding me a place that he must find me a place where I could smoke, remarking jocularly, 'If I cannot smoke, I shall die'. Unexpectedly, this turned out to be true.
Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.3 chap. 1: Return to England, 1969
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