| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | October 29, 1953 |
| Time: | 0844 |
| Location: | Near Half Moon Bay, California |
| Operator: | British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines |
| Flight #: | 304/44 |
| Route: | Sydney - Honolulu - San Francisco |
| AC Type: | Douglas DC-6 |
| Registration: | VH-BPE |
| cn / ln: | 43125/131 |
| Aboard: | 19 (passengers:11 crew:8) |
| Fatalities: | 19 (passengers:11 crew:8) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | While flying in fog on an approach to San Francisco International Airport, the aircraft crashed into a redwood forest on a mountain ridge, 7.5 miles southeast of Half Moon Bay. The plane struck the ridge of King's Mountain and broke up, scattering wreckage over a half-mile area. Failure of the crew to follow prescribed procedures for an instrument approach. American pianist, William Kapell, 31, killed. |
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