The wife of a Connecticut man who died in last month's collision between a passenger jet and a military helicopter near Washington, D.C.’s Ronald Reagan National Airport has filed what are believed to be the first legal claims over the crash that killed 67 people.

The first steps toward a lawsuit were filed Tuesday by the family of a victim of the deadly midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight last month in Washington. Claims were filed against the Federal Aviation Administration and the Army for $250 million in damages by an attorney for the family