Los Angeles Airways Flight 841 was a Sikorsky S-61 helicopter that crashed at 5:50 p.m. on Wednesday, May 22, 1968, in the city of Paramount, California.

[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.

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."

N303Y, a Sikorsky S-61L helicopter, serial number 61060, had accumulated 12,096 total flying hours prior to the accident.

The tail rotor was discovered one block east of the crash site in a used truck yard.