Loose iPad factors into NTSB investigation of Idaho helicopter crash that killed Alaska co-pilot

A loose iPad that may have become jammed beneath a pedal midflight is a key factor in the investigation into the crash of a firefighting helicopter in Idaho last year that killed two pilots, including one from Alaska. That’s according to a summary of investigators’ examination of the iPad, and further testing, that was released this summer by the National Transportation Safety Board, the federal agency that probes the causes of aviation accidents. “What we theorize at this point is that the iPad was in the cockpit, somehow it was...