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title: "US Government Admits Negligence In January Plane/Helicopter Crash"
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**The Trump administration immediately and inappropriately played the DEI card, because that works for their audience. *(Identity politics is played by all political parties)* `That same government is now acknowledging negligence`**.

> [Black Hawk Helicopter flying higher than max allowable- 3rd pilot named](https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2025/02/02/black-hawk-helicopter-flying-higher-than-max-allowable-3rd-pilot-named/)



> [Black Hawk helicopter’s altitude at issue; families of crash victims ‘want answers’](https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2025/02/03/black-hawk-helicopters-altitude-at-issue-families-of-crash-victims-want-answers/)



#### [**U.S. government admits negligence in January helicopter-plane collision near Washington**](https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/plane-helicopter-crash-washington-negligence-9.7020410)

> **The U.S. government admitted Wednesday that the Federal Aviation Administration and the Army played a role in causing [the collision last January between an airliner and a Black Hawk helicopter](https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/livestory/no-survivors-after-midair-collision-near-washington-d-c-officials-say-9.6628034) near the nation’s capital, killing 67 people in the deadliest crash on American soil in more than two decades.**
> 
> The official response to the first lawsuit filed by a family of one of the victims said that the government is liable in the crash partly because the air traffic controller violated procedures that night. **The filing also said the failure of the Army helicopter pilots “to maintain vigilance so as to see and avoid” the airline jet makes the government liable.**
> 
> The government’s lawyers said in the filing that “the United States admits that it owed a duty of care to plaintiffs, which it breached, thereby proximately causing the tragic accident.”
> 
> The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will release its report on the cause of the crash early next year, but investigators have already highlighted a number of factors that contributed, **including the helicopter flying 24 metres higher than the 61-metre limit on a route that allowed only scant separation between planes landing on Reagan’s secondary runway and helicopters passing below.**
> 
> **The NTSB also said that the FAA failed to recognize the dangers around the busy airport even after 85 near misses in the three years before the crash.**
> 
> **The government admitted in its filing that the United States “was on notice of certain near-miss events between its Army-operated Black Hawk helicopters and aircraft traffic transiting in and around helicopter Routes 1 and 4” around Washington.**