Santa Monica - Hollywood

On September 13, 1968 at 07:23 AM, Santa Monica - Hollywood experienced a crash involving Rockwell 1121 Jet Commander, operated by Eversharp, with the event recorded near Hollywood-Burbank (Bob Hope) California.

The flight was categorized as positioning and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

2 people were known to be on board, 3 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 150.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 1.

The listed crash cause is weather. While on final approach to Hollywood-Burbank Airport on a positioning flight from Santa Monica, the airplane adopted a nose-down attitude, struck power cables, hit a house and crashed in a wasteland located few miles short of runway. Both pilots and one people on the ground were killed. The aircraft was destroyed as well as several cars. A house was also damaged.

Aircraft reference details include registration N148E, MSN 1121-022, year of manufacture 1965.