The crew, returning from the flight, told about the An-12 in one of the African ports. Each of the ten wheels of the aircraft was half painted in white – as if a crazy painter had split each wheel in half in diameter and painted only one half. Everyone wondered who and why painted the wheels.

They were not surprised for long. Going outside the territory of the airport, they saw a flower bowl, broken under the USSR. The Klumba was traditionally enclosed with spinning wheels, half digged into the ground. The overground part of the wheels is painted in white. Lots of wheels were missing.