Accident Rockwell 1121 Jet Commander N148E, Friday 13 September 1968

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
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: