LOS ANGELES - Susan B. Jordan, an activist lawyer who represented high-profile clients such as Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson, died in a plane crash. She was 67.

Jordan of Ukiah, Calif., was the passenger in a two-seater plane that crashed Friday after clipping a power line, said Garfield County, Utah, sheriff's spokeswoman Becki Bronson. The pilot, John Austin, 64, of Boulder, Utah, was also killed.

Jordan, who practiced in the San Francisco area for many years, came to prominence in the 1970s when she represented clients on the fringes of the Patty Hearst trial. She also gained fame for a landmark case of rape victim Inez Garcia who was convicted of killing one of her attackers. In a 1977 retrial, Jordan won Garcia's acquittal on grounds that she acted in self defense.

In the early 1970s she was drawn into the periphery of the Patty Hearst case, representing two women who had been subpoenaed to testify in Hearst's bank robbery trial.

It was then that she came in contact with the Symbionese Liberation Army, and 25 years later she would be hired by Olson, who was tracked down and charged with conspiring to kill police officers.

Jordan ultimately bowed out of the case, telling the judge that she was fighting an ailment known as trigeminal neuralgia that would not permit her to participate in a long, arduous trial.