The Colonel survived the crash, but severed his spine and was paralyzed for life. He began drinking hard, and he killed himself a year later. The Sargent was killed at the scene. He was still barely alive in the crash debris, abandoned to die after the Colonel crawled away like a snake, when he was scalped by Crazy Eyes Gopher, and then his dead body was scavenged by coyotes and vultures. Oh the good old days before realistic cartoons were all canceled...