(EDITORS NOTE: Image contains graphic content) In this U.S. Coast Guard handout, the Coast Guard investigates aircraft wreckage on the Potomac River on Jan. 30, 2025 in Washington, DC.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The United States government admitted liability in the deadly collision between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an arriving American Airlines<\/a> regional jet over the Potomac River that killed all 67 people aboard the two aircraft.<\/p>\n “The United States admits that it owed a duty of care to Plaintiffs, which it breached, thereby proximately causing the tragic accident on January 29, 2025,” the Justice Department said in a court filing on Wednesday.<\/p>\n The Jan. 29 crash was the worst air disaster in the U.S. since 2001 and prompted restrictions<\/a> on helicopter flights around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, where the airspace is one of the most congested<\/a> in the country.<\/p>\n American Airlines, which is also a named defendant in the lawsuit brought by the family of one of the crash victims, didn’t immediately comment.<\/p>\n Read more CNBC airline news<\/p>\n This is breaking news. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(EDITORS NOTE: Image contains graphic content) In this U.S. Coast Guard handout, the Coast Guard investigates aircraft wreckage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[9178,4324,23,27187,448,116,1071,28,122,3130,271,112,3,111,6145,2427,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-355166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-aerospace-and-defense-industry","tag-airlines","tag-america","tag-american-airlines-group-inc","tag-breaking-news-business","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-breaking-news-politics","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-lawsuits","tag-life","tag-markets","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-transportation","tag-travel","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}