When the last 2 Containers owned by Sgt. Bagdasarian and Mr. Atterbury were jettisoned from the C130 toward the end of the flight, it would not have saved a significant amount of fuel with only under 10 minutes of flight time remaining to avoid crash landing any closer to the runway. It was a poor, unnecessary decision by Steve Canyon.
John Hoyt, Paul Comi, and DeForest Kelly would later appear on Star Trek (1966). Hoyt played Dr Phillip "Bones" Boyce in the original pilot for Star Trek, "The Cage." Kelly would play Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in three TV series and six movies from 1966 to 1996. Comi will play Lt. Stiles in the Star Trek episode "Balance of Terror".
Tige Andrews would later play Captain Adan Greer in "The Mod Squad" (1968 - 1973).
Sue Randall is best known as Beaver Cleaver's teacher Miss Landers on "Leave it to Beaver".