2026 Chatsworth Eurocopter AS350 crash
Tiny Bubbles Aviation Eurocopter AS 350 B2 · Under investigation
Event
- NTSB case
- WPR26FA345
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Ongoing
- Event fatalities
- 3 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 1
- Occupants
- 2
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 2 · all on the ground
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Eurocopter AS 350 B2
- Aircraft type
- Eurocopter AS-350
- Category
- Helicopter · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N358TV
- Operator
- Tiny Bubbles Aviation
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Maneuvering
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Unknown or undetermined
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Not recorded
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
On September 15, 2026, a Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil, owned by KNBC/KVEA of Los Angeles, California, crashed while covering a fatal bus crash in Chatsworth. Two people onboard were killed along with one person on the ground. The cause of the crash is under investigation.
Crash
KNBC is the NBC-owned-and-operated television station for Los Angeles County, along with its local Spanish-language sister station, KVEA, operated by NBC-owned Telemundo. The Angel City Air-operated helicopter came down at the 9100 block of North Mason Avenue, next to or on the site of a self-storage facility. The engine reportedly lost power before crashing. There had also been noises indicating low RPM on the helicopter before crashing, although there was fuel onboard at the time of the crash.
The helicopter had been covering a bus crash between a Ford Expedition and a Los Angeles Metro Bus in which two people were killed and six others were injured. The helicopter reportedly lost contact with KNBC before crashing.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: 2026 Chatsworth Eurocopter AS350 crash
- Revision
- 1375566252 · 2026-09-18 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q141489588
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record WPR26FA345
- Event ID
- 20260916203829
- Case number
- WPR26FA345
- Dataset
- weekly-update
- Source SHA-256
- f31b6e5568cc2c45ccc9d492240c04eb8ee083a9aa17cb57c56485374fb6c419
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "2026 Chatsworth Eurocopter AS350 crash" (page 84249743, revision 1375566252); merged with NTSB case WPR26FA345 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- NTSB record WPR26FA345: NTSB API eventDate, eventTimeUtc and eventTimeUtcOffsetHours (local date)
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from NTSB record WPR26FA345
- Map position
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- NTSB record WPR26FA345: aircraft; gaps from Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- NTSB record WPR26FA345: operated under Part 91: General Aviation
- Fatalities
- NTSB record WPR26FA345: NTSB API totalFatal
- Ground fatalities
- NTSB record WPR26FA345: NTSB API ongroundFatal
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (3)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "2026 Chatsworth Eurocopter AS350 crash" and NTSB case WPR26FA345, matched by the same aircraft registration and date. For this US event the NTSB's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 2026-09-16.