California routes. Known as the "The Argentine Queen," before  being acquired by Transocean in 1953 it had been the personal  aircraft of Argentine dictator Juan Domingo Perón (qv).  Ironically, a little more than a decade after appearing in the film  this aircraft and the nine persons on board were lost on March 28,  1964, when the plane was forced to ditch in the Pacific Ocean about  700 miles west of San Francisco. The plane was about eight hours  into a charter flight from Honolulu to Los Angeles when the pilot  reported a serious fire in engine #2. The Coast Guard searched for  the aircraft for five days but no trace of it was ever found.