- Date
- October 19, 2026, 13:08, time zone not recorded
- Place
- St. Louis, MO
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N3842Eurocopter Deutschland EC 135 P2
- Defining event
- Enroute: Birdstrike
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Case key
- 204050
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3842
- Reported as
- Eurocopter Deutschland EC 135 P2
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Air Methods LLC
- Registered owner
- Air Methods LLC
N3842Registered now · Eurocopter Deutschland EC 135 P2Airframe modelEurocopter Deutschland EC 135 P2Engine modelPratt & Whitney Canada PW206B series
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.