Western Air Lines Flight 636

Western Air Lines Flight 636 was a scheduled flight between Los Angeles International Airport and Oakland Municipal Airport in Oakland, California. Late in the evening of April 20, 1953, the Douglas DC-6B aircraft serving the flight crashed into the San Francisco Bay while making the short flight from a stopover at San Francisco International Airport to Oakland, killing eight of the ten occupants of the plane. Most of the aircraft and two of the victims were never recovered from the bay.