- Date
- October 10, 2026, 13:00, time zone not recorded
- Place
- Riverton, IL
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 2 uninjured
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N426AEBell Helicopter Textron Canada 206L-4
- Defining event
- Enroute-cruise: Birdstrike
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Case key
- 204000
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N426AE
- Reported as
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 206L-4
- Operator
- Air Evac Ems Inc
- Registered owner
- Air Evac Ems Inc
N426AERegistered now · Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 206L-4Airframe modelBell Helicopter Textron Canada 206L-4Engine modelRolls-Royce 250-C30P
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.