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| | BCPA DC-6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | One of the most accessible sites to Wreckchasers is the wreck of British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines' DC-6 VH-BPE which crashed on Kings Mountain, south of San Francisco, California, on Oct. 29, 1953. |
 | | The plane, named Resolution after the ships commanded by Capt. James Cook on his 1728-1779 voyages of the Pacific, had departed Sydney, Australia, bound for Vancouver, B.C., via Auckland, New Zealand, Nadi, Fiji Islands, Canton Island, Honolulu, and San Francisco. |
 | | Further detailed information on this crash can be obtained in Wreckchasing: A Guide To Finding Aircraft Crash Sites available from Pacific Aero Press for $11.95 plus shipping and handling. |
| www.wreckchasing.com /bcpa.htm (553 words) |
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