Rotorcraft
Air Methods and Airbus Settle with A-Star Paramedic
Helicopter design factor in settlement

Air Methods and Airbus Helicopters will share the costs of a $100 million settlement with a surviving crewmember of a crashed 2013 Airbus Helicopters AS350 B3e. It went down after attaining an altitude of 100 feet agl approximately 30 seconds after takeoff from the Summit Medical Center Heliport in Frisco, Colorado, on July 3, 2015. The helicopter crashed into a parking lot 360 feet southwest of the ground-based helipad and was destroyed by impact and post-crash fire.