For the next 26 minutes, the crew of the EP-3 carried out an emergency plan which included destroying sensitive items on board the aircraft, such as electronic equipment related to intelligence-gathering, documents and data. Part of this plan involved pouring freshly brewed coffee into disk drives and motherboards and using an axe from the planes survival kit to destroy hard drives.[14] The crew had not been formally trained on how to destroy sensitive documents and equipment, and so improvised. As a result of the destruction, the planes interior was later described as resembling "the aftermath of a frat party".[2]