Los Angeles Airways Flight 841
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.
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.
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.
See also
References
- ^ "FAA Registry (N303Y)". Federal Aviation Administration.
- ^ Gero, David (1993). Aviation Disasters. Sparkford, Somerset, England: Patrick Stephens Limited. ISBN 1-85260-379-8.
- ^ "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.