Los Angeles Airways Flight 841

Los Angeles Airways Flight 841
	A Los Angeles Airways Sikorsky S-61 similar to the one involved. The aircraft in the picture was the one later destroyed in the August 1968 Los Angeles Airways Flight 417 crash.
Accident
Date	May 22, 1968
Summary	Mechanical failure
Site	Paramount, California, United States
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Sikorsky 61L
Operator	Los Angeles Airways
Registration	N303Y
Passengers	20
Crew	3
Fatalities	23
Survivors	0

Los Angeles Airways Flight 841 was a Sikorsky S-61 helicopter that crashed at 5:50 p.m. on Wednesday May 22nd 1968 in the city of Paramount, California. All twenty passengers and three crew members were killed. The aircraft was destroyed by impact and fire. The probable cause of the accident was a mechanical failure in the blade rotor system, which then allowed one blade to strike the side of the fuselage. The other four blades were then thrown out of balance and all five rotor blades broke and then the rear fuselage and tail separated from the rest of the airframe.^[2] The cause of the mechanical failure is undetermined.^[3] At the time, it was the worst helicopter-related accident in U.S. aviation history,^[4] not to be surpassed until the 1986 Grand Canyon mid-air collision which killed 25.^[5]

Los Angeles Airways (LAA) Flight 841 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from Disneyland Heliport in Anaheim, California to Los Angeles International Airport. The flight was westbound at 2,000 feet over Paramount, California when air traffic controllers received a distress message from pilots: "L.A., we're crashing, help us." The helicopter crashed onto a dairy farm and burst into flames. N303Y, a Sikorsky S-61L helicopter, serial number 61060, had accumulated 12,096 total flying hours prior to the accident.^[3]

Much of the debris was contained in the dairy farm where the helicopter crashed. The tail rotor was discovered one block east of the crash site in a used truck yard.^[2]

Among those killed was a group of nine vacationers from Ohio; a Hunt-Wesson Foods executive; the mayor of Red Bluff, California; and a University of California, Berkeley professor.^[6]

References

↑ "FAA Registry (N303Y)". Federal Aviation Administration.
1 2 Gero, David (1993). Aviation Disasters. Sparkford, Somerset, England: Patrick Stephens Limited. ISBN 1-85260-379-8.
1 2 "NTSB Identification: DCA68A0006". National Traffic Safety Board. Retrieved 2008-06-06.
↑ "21 Aboard Killed as Copter Falls in Compton Park" William Tully; Dave Larsen Los Angeles Times; Aug 15, 1968 pg. 1
↑ "NTSB Identification: DCA86AA028B". National Transportation Safety Board. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
↑ "The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California". Newspapers.com. 1968-05-24. Retrieved 2023-06-20.

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[1] "FAA Registry (N303Y)". Federal Aviation Administration.

[ad-2] 1 2 Gero, David (1993). Aviation Disasters. Sparkford, Somerset, England: Patrick Stephens Limited. ISBN 1-85260-379-8.

[Report-3] 1 2 "NTSB Identification: DCA68A0006". National Traffic Safety Board. Retrieved 2008-06-06.

[:0-4] "21 Aboard Killed as Copter Falls in Compton Park" William Tully; Dave Larsen Los Angeles Times; Aug 15, 1968 pg. 1

[NTSB-5] "NTSB Identification: DCA86AA028B". National Transportation Safety Board. Retrieved 8 August 2016.

[6] "The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California". Newspapers.com. 1968-05-24. Retrieved 2023-06-20.

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Aviation accidents and incidents in the United States and U.S. territories in the 1960s
1960	National Airlines Flight 2511 Capital Airlines Flight 20 Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 710 Chicago Helicopter Airways Flight 698 World Airways Flight 830 Eastern Air Lines Flight 375 Cal Poly football team New York mid-air collision
1961	Goldsboro B-52 American Airlines Flight 1502 Yuba City B-52 United Air Lines Flight 859 Alaska Airlines Flight 779 TWA Flight 529 Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 706 Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8 Cincinnati Zantop DC-4
1962	American Airlines Flight 1 Continental Airlines Flight 11 Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 301 United Air Lines Flight 297 Eastern Air Lines Flight 512
1963	Elephant Mountain B-52 Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 705 Camden PA-24 Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 293 Mohawk Airlines Flight 112 Pan Am Flight 214
1964	Savage Mountain B-52 Eastern Air Lines Flight 304 Paradise Airlines Flight 901A Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 United Air Lines Flight 823 Bonanza Air Lines Flight 114 Flying Tiger Line Flight 282
1965	USAF KC-135 Wichita Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 Pan Am Flight 843 Continental Airlines Flight 12 Allegheny Airlines Flight 604 United Air Lines Flight 389 American Airlines Flight 383 United Air Lines Flight 227 Carmel mid-air (Eastern 853, TWA 42)
1966	NASA T-38 American Flyers Airline Flight 280/D Braniff International Airways Flight 250 West Coast Airlines Flight 956
1967	Lake Central Airlines Flight 527 TWA Flight 553 West Coast Airlines Flight 720 Delta Air Lines Flight 9877 Mohawk Airlines Flight 40 Piedmont Airlines Flight 22 TWA Flight 159 X-15 Flight 3-65-97 TWA Flight 128
1968	Ozark Air Lines Flight 965 Braniff International Airways Flight 352 Los Angeles Airways Flight 841 Los Angeles Airways Flight 417 Northeast Airlines Flight 946 Japan Air Lines Flight 2 Pan Am Flight 281 Wien Consolidated Airlines Flight 55 Allegheny Airlines Flight 736 Pan Am Flight 799 North Central Airlines Flight 458 Ozark Air Lines Flight 982
1969	Allegheny Airlines Flight 737 Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 933 United Air Lines Flight 266 Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 Prinair Flight 277 Delta Air Lines Flight 821 TWA Flight 5787 Newton Cessna 172 crash Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 Mohawk Airlines Flight 411
This list is incomplete.

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