Qld: Helicopter 'carrying too much weight' when it crashed: ATSB From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: October 2, 2007 | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

AAP General News (Australia)

10-02-2007

Qld: Helicopter 'carrying too much weight' when it crashed: ATSB

By Roberta Mancuso

BRISBANE, Oct 2 AAP - A helicopter that crashed in north-west Queensland, killing all
four aboard, may have been overloaded, a report says.

Pilot Vita Stott, 28, of Berwickshire in Scotland, and three male passengers, aged
35, 38 and 50, died instantly when their Robinson R44 helicopter plunged into a hil...

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