From CBS News: The U.S. government admitted in a court filing Wednesday that it was partially at fault in a midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter that killed 67 people earlier this year.
In the 209-page filing by the Justice Department, government lawyers wrote that the U.S. “admits that it owed a duty of care to Plaintiffs, which it breached, thereby proximately causing the tragic accident on January 29, 2025.”
The filing states that the crew of the Army Black Hawk helicopter — which was conducting a training mission with night-vision goggles on the night of the crash — failed to establish and maintain proper and safe visual separation with a regional American Eagle flight that was approaching runway 33 at Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C. American Eagle and PSA Airlines are subsidiaries of American Airlines.
The report further found that the Army Black Hawk helicopter pilots “failed to maintain vigilance so as to see and avoid other aircraft and their failure was a cause-infact and proximate cause of the accident.”
The crash may be seen from different angles in the video below.
The next two videos are reports from July as the investigation was underway.
U.S. admits fault in deadly midair collision that killed 67 people
https://t.co/ZOjgTJq227— KFVS News (@kfvsnews) December 18, 2025
The U.S. government admitted in a court filing Wednesday that it was partially at fault in a midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter that killed 67 people earlier this year. https://t.co/lN6qU6fJfA
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 18, 2025
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