RE: Final flight of a DC-6B fifty-six years ago

[brad kaste]

Reading through the latest issue of "Aviation History" there's mention of a commercial airline crash that took place October 29, 1953. A BCPA DC-6B named Resolution went in on approach to San Francisco International Airport. All crew members and passengers were lost. Right now a group is trying to raise money for a monument to commemorate them. An interesting link.

http://www.flightoftheresolution.org/index.html

[harleyman]

Very Intresting..So many years ago too...And with hardly no mention of the lost ..Nothing to mark their journeys end there...Very sad ...

[srgalahad]

Interesting brad... from the "news" section the answer is coming: "History is once again coming to a resolution. On Wednesday January 28th, at the regular meeting of the Board of Directors for MROSD, by a vote of 6-0, the final approval was obtained to place the plaque donated by the Native Sons of the Golden West at the entrance to the Methuselah trail."

Still, it led me to a bunch of things... a history of BCPA, enough pictures to start a repaint for the DC-6 (note that some sources quote DC-6, others use DC-6B), and then onward to the Australian "Airways Museum & Civil Aviation Historical Society" website which produced pics for at least two other repaints of other aircraft... thanks for filling my day (and more to come) :wiggle:

Also interesting that this story was blended with Ernest Gann's novel "The High and the Mighty" to add some extra "danger" when they made the Robert Stack, John Wayne movie version a few months later.. the chilling final moments to clear the ridge before the safe landing at SFO. ( six Oscar nominations, one Oscar)
http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/26/249026_thumb.jpg

Rob