British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines (BCPA) Flight 304/44 was flown by a Douglas DC-6 named Resolution and registered VH-BPE, on a flight from Sydney, Australia, to Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada, with scheduled stops at Nadi (Fiji), Canton Island, Honolulu and San Francisco. It crashed during its initial approach towards San Francisco International Airport on 29 October 1953, killing all 19 people on board, including the American pianist William Kapell.