Three people were killed Thursday afternoon when two helicopters collided in midair near McMinnville Municipal Airport in Oregon and crashed in a farm field, Yamhill County Sheriff Sam Elliott said^2,7,8,11.

Elliott said the collision occurred about 2:15 p.m. local time near Highway 233 and Southeast Cruickshank Road, southeast of McMinnville and about a mile west of Dayton, closing both directions of the highway^2,7. ABC News, citing the sheriff's office, put the time at about 2:10 p.m. and described the intersection as Highway 33 and Cruickshank Road¹¹.

The sheriff identified the aircraft as a 1995 Robinson R22 and a 2018 Airbus H125, also referred to as an AS350B3^2,11. He said two people were aboard the Robinson and one aboard the Airbus, reversing an earlier FAA spokesperson's occupant count^2,11.

Killed aboard the Airbus, Elliott said, was Tyler Delane Sturdevant, 38, a pilot from Newberg, Oregon^2,8,11. Aboard the Robinson were Maddie Aasbo, 22, a flight instructor from Texas, and a 31-year-old student pilot from the United Kingdom who had not been publicly identified while authorities worked with the British consulate and the FBI on family notification^2,8,11.

McMinnville-based Jerry Trimble Helicopters said one of its aircraft was involved and that it was cooperating with local agencies, the FAA and the NTSB^2,8. Precision, a private helicopter contractor, said one of its aircraft was involved and that Sturdevant, one of its pilots, was killed².

The FAA and NTSB responded; the sheriff and the FAA said the NTSB is leading the investigation^2,8,11. The cause was not immediately known⁸.