U.S. government to pay family $17.8 million in F/A-18 crash

A U.S. federal judge on Wednesday ruled that the the government must pay $17.8 million to a family that lost four members when a Marine Corps F/A-18 crashed into their San Diego home in 2008.

The family had sought $56 million.

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