Report: Fatal flight’s pilot overtaxed copter’s capabilities

PHOENIX (AP) — Federal investigators say a pilot flew a medical helicopter beyond its capabilities on a high-speed, low-level flight across mountainous east-central Arizona before it hit a slope on a ridge, killing two of the crew members aboard.
A National Transportation Safety Board final report on the Dec. 15, 2015 crash said the pilot lost control of the helicopter as the combination of high speed and other factors overtaxed the helicopter’s hydraulics system.
The report released