Video: 'Los Angeles Airways Helicopter Flight 841 Crashes--Disneyland Deaths And Injuries--1960's--TMS-2127'

(Wednesday, May 22, 1968, 5:50 p.m. PDT) — Los Angeles Airways Flight 841, a regularly scheduled passenger flight from Disneyland Heliport in Anaheim, California, to Los Angeles International Airport, crashed onto a dairy farm and burst into flames today in the city of Paramount, California, killing all 23 persons aboard, including a group of nine vacationers from Ohio.

The probable cause of the accident was a mechanical failure in the blade rotor system.

At the time, it was the worst helicopter-related accident in U.S. aviation history.