Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash was lucky to survive an incident at an airport where his manager, Alan Niven, intervened when some members of the band showed up at the airport with drugs. Niven discovered that Izzy Stradlin had drugs that would likely be found by authorities and advised him to flush them. Both Slash and Stradlian to ingest the illegal substances rather than dispose of them, they instead took them all over the air. The incident occurred at Los Angeles International Airport. Despite this, Niven was able to make it to Japan with Stradil and Stadlin safely made their way back to America, where Niven had to rescheduled a flight alone with frontman Axl Rose the next day.