Air Fate flight 13 is a regional jet operating in regularly scheduled passenger service between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Passengers include Yukio Wantabe, a Japanese Elvis impersonator traveling on a round trip Tokyo-Los Angeles-Las Vegas and return ticket to attend the annual convention of Elvi; Col. Throt L. Jockey, USAF (ret.) ticketed from L.A. to Las Vegas to tell the Thunderbirds how to fly in their upcoming demonstration; Seaman 3rd Class Rollin Deck, ticketed from San Diego to Las Vegas via L.A. on leave to get married and do a little sightseeing; retired No-wheresville Police Chief Outta Hear on his way from L.A. to Vegas to get lost in the crowd and stay there for a long time; television screenwriter Carl Chase, whose ticket shows L.A.- Las Vegas- Bangor, ME, but omits a planned stop in Montreal, Canada. Cargo aboard the aircraft includes a case of thousand-year-old scotch valued at $10,000 and weighing 10 KG shipped by an L.A. liquor distributor to a Las Vegas connoisseur and a 2 kg laser surgery instrument valued at $1,350,000 shipped from its Korean manufacturer to a Las Vegas hospital via L.A. The air waybills delivered to both shippers are proper in