For interior and exterior shots of flight IL 888, a real Ilyushin IL-62 was used. It has the registration DDR-SEG and was an Interflug plane. Since 1989 this plane is parked at Airfield Stölln/Rhinow. DDR-SEG was the legendary plane which pilot Heinz-Dieter Kallbach landed on a 900 meter grass runway on 23 October 1989. A regular Ilyushin IL-62 needs a 2500 meter runway to stop, but this plane was modified to land on a short runway.