The charred wreckage of Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa's Air-Med helicopter lays along the edge of an old fence line two miles northwest of Ventura, Iowa Thursday morning, Jan. 3, 2013. (AP photo,Jeff Heinz,Globe Gazette).

MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) — A hospital in northern Iowa is receiving a temporary helicopter after its permanent service was halted by a crash.

The Mason City Globe Gazette reports Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa will get the helicopter from Med-Trans Corp. as early as Monday.

Med Trans provides helicopter transportation services to the hospital. Mercy has not announced when they will resume patient transportation services.

Mercy’s helicopter services were suspended after a Jan. 2 crash killed the pilot and two others on board. A preliminary federal report suggests investigators will check icy conditions to try to determine what caused the crash.

The helicopter had been headed to Emmetsburg, about 80 miles west of Mason City, to pick up a patient when it slammed into the ground just north of Ventura.

The funeral procession for flight nurse Shelly Lair-Langenbau passes under a United States flag and by the Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa parking lot as law enforcement officers, firefighters and emergency medical personnel gather to honor flight nurse Shelly Lair-Langenbau during a service, Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, in Mason City, Iowa. Lair-Langenbau was killed with two others when the medical helicopter they were aboard that was flying from Mason City to Emmetsburg, Iowa, crashed into a field. (AP Photo/The Globe-Gazette, Arian Schuessler)