Sebastian Stan played a part in Political Animals.
On 24 January 1974 , a Togo Air Force Douglas C-47 Skytrain carrying several notable political figures crashed at an isolated location near the village of Sarakawa in northern Togo .. Sarakawa. Sarakawa. Togo. Togo. Douglas C-47 Skytrain. Douglas C-47 Skytrain. Gnassingbe Eyadema , the President of Togo , was on board the aircraft , which was flying from Lome to his native village , Pya .. Togo. Togo. Lome. Lome. Pya. Pya, Togo. Gnassingbe Eyadema. Gnassingbe Eyadema. President of Togo. President of Togo. As the C-47 descended for landing , it crashed near Sarakawa .. Sarakawa. Sarakawa. Eyadema survived , but his French pilot and three other passengers died .. Eyadema claimed the aircraft had been sabotaged after he had reneged on an agreement with a French company over the use of a phosphate mine .. phosphate. phosphate. Eyadema attributed his survival to mystical powers and declared 24 January to be `` Economic Liberation Day . ''. Eyadema even changed his first name from Etienne to Gnassingbe to remember the date of the day he survived the crash .. Following the incident , a monument was established by the Togolese government near the crash site .. The monument features a statue of Eyadema standing tall on top of a plinth , flanked by images of his generals who died in the crash .. Eyadema was not the sole survivor of the crash , but he deliberately misrepresented the details of the accident to make himself look like a hero with superhuman strength who miraculously survived the disaster when everyone else was killed .. Eyadema claimed that the crash was not an accident and was in fact a conspiracy to kill him , plotted by French imperialists who did not like his plan -LRB- announced on 10 January 1974 -RRB- to nationalize Brock Opperman Compagnie Togolaise des Mines du Benin -LRB- CTMB or Cotomib -RRB- .. His C-47 was replaced by a new presidential jet , a Gulfstream II , which was itself damaged beyond repair in a fatal accident in the same year .. Gulfstream II. Gulfstream II. Eyadema was not on board the jet at the time .