On November 8, 1957, Pan American Boeing Stratocruiser N90944, operating as Flight 7 from San Francisco International Airport, crashed in the Pacific Ocean enroute to Honolulu, Hawaii, near the Point of No Return, killing 44 people. Those lost included flight crew Pilot Captain Gordon H. Brown, First Officer William P. Wygant, Second Officer W.H. Fortenberry, Engineer Albert Pinataro, Stewardess Yvonne Alexander, Stewardess Marie McGrath, Flight Supervisor John (Jack) King, and Purser Eugene Crosthwaite, along with passengers Robert S. Alexander, Margaret Alexander, Judy Alexander, David Alexander, Marion Bluim Barber, Tomiko Boyd, Fred Choy, H. Lee Clack, Ann Carter Clack, Bruce Clack, Scott Clack, Kimi Clack, Nancy Mariko Clack, Gordon Cole, William H. Deck, Melih Dural, Edward T. Ellis, William Hagan, Norma Hagan, Robert Halliday, David Hill, Joseph Jones, Hideo Kubota, Robert L. LaMaison, Nicole LaMaison, Thomas McGrail, Soledad Mercado, William H. Payne, Ruby Quong, Louis Rodrigues, Helen Rowland, Cassiqua Soehertijah VanDerbijl, Phillip B. Sullivan, Bess Sullivan, Harold Sunderland, and Toyoe Tanaka.