Date: | Friday 13 September 1968 |
Time: | 07:23 |
Type: | Rockwell 1121 Jet Commander |
Owner/operator: | Eversharp |
Registration: | N148E |
MSN: | 22 |
Year of manufacture: | 1965 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Other fatalities: | 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Hollywood-Burbank Airport, CA (BUR) -
United States of America
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Executive |
Departure airport: | Santa Monica Airport, CA (SMO/KSMO) |
Destination airport: | Hollywood-Burbank Airport, CA (BUR/KBUR) |
Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:A Rockwell 1121 Jet Commander corporate jet, registered N148E, was destroyed when it crashed while on approach to Hollywood-Burbank Airport, CA (BUR). Both pilots were killed and a woman in a car was killed when the car was struck by debris.
The airplane departed Santa Monica Airport, CA (SMO) on a short 30-mile positioning flight to Burbank to pick up three vice-presidents of the Technicolor company. The crew lost control of the airplane after entering wake vortices of a preceding aircraft (separation approx. 3 min 15 seconds). The jet struck power lines, contacted a building and broke up.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "miscellaneous - vortex turbulence"
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Report number: | LAX69A0014 |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
NTSB
Lodi News-Sentinel - Sep 12, 1968
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photo (c) Peter Bashaw; Burbank, CA; 13 September 1968
photo (c) Peter Bashaw; Burbank, CA; 13 September 1968
photo (c) Peter Bashaw; Burbank, CA; 13 September 1968
photo (c) Peter Bashaw; Burbank, CA; 13 September 1968
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