Katla

The plane wreck Mikael encounters is a real wreck. In 1973 a United States Navy Douglas C-117D plane ran out of fuel and crashed on the black beach at Sólheimasandur, in the South Coast of Iceland. Fortunately, everyone in that plane survived. Later it turned out that the pilot had simply switched over to the wrong fuel tank. The remains are still on the sand very close to the sea.