U.S. Admits Fault in Deadly D.C. Air Crash
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The U.S. government has admitted that failures by federal agencies caused a fatal collision between a helicopter and a passenger jet near Washington, D.C.
In a legal filing on Wednesday, the government accepted liability for the January crash. The incident killed all 67 people on board both aircraft.
The filing responds to a lawsuit from victims' families. It states that an air traffic controller broke rules about visual separation between aircraft.
It also says U.S. Army helicopter pilots failed to see and avoid the approaching airliner. Both the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Army are named.
This was the deadliest crash on U.S. soil in over 20 years. The admission is a major development in the ongoing legal cases.