The United States government has been ordered by a district judge to pay $3.3 million in damages to a man who crashed his snowmobile into a parked Black Hawk helicopter owned by the US military.

The accident occurred in the evening of March 2019. Jeff Smith, aged 48, a Massachusetts lawyer, was driving his snowmobile in an area normally used by skiers and snowmobilers. And although rarely used, the area also happens to be an Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-approved airstrip.

Smith rammed into the camouflaged helicopter, which had just flown from New York’s Fort Drum to Worthington, Massachusetts, 

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