A pilot helping to investigate a Russian jet crash that killed 44 people, including an entire hockey team, said Thursday that a simulation pointed to pilot error as the cause. The Yak-42 jet crashed into the banks of the Volga River Sept. 7 moments after takeoff from the city of Yaroslavl in western Russia, wiping out Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of Russia's CHL, including several former NHL players. Test pilot Vasily Sevastyanov told state-run Channel One television that the plane went into a spin because a pilot pulled it up too sharply following an abnormally slow run.