Lan Chin-hsing says that at the Ilan air base he personally saw a Japanese officer climb into a rickety old plane and try to suicidally ram an American aircraft, but his plane came apart in the air.
藍金興也表示，在宜蘭飛機場，當時他曾親眼目睹一位年輕的日本軍官駕著一台破飛機，自殺式地去撞美軍飛機，然後在空中解體。