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Donald Trump accused Democrats and diversity, justice and inclusion policy for a collision between a commercial jet and a military helicopter that killed 67 people outside of Washington.
Without quoting evidence, the president said that his evaluation of “common sense” was that the accident was caused on Wednesday evening due to Lax security standards based on Dei guidelines that were introduced by its predecessors.
“There are no survivors”, ” Trump card told reporters on Thursday when he went to the podium in the press room of the White House for the first time in his second presidency.
The flight of the regional American Airlines, which was operated by his subsidiary PSA Airlines, had in Wichita, Kansas. The Bombardier CRJ700 Jet sent his approach to Washington Reagan National Airport when he collided with a Sikorsky H-60 Black Hawk helicopter of the US Army. Immerse yourself in the Potomac river.
The fuselage of the trading beam was found in three pieces in the water. The American flight had 60 passengers and four crew members on board, while three soldiers were in the Black Hawk.
The National Transportation Safety Board said it would have a preliminary report in 30 days. Jennifer Homendy, the chairman of the agency, said that the flight data recorder of both aircraft would not have to be recovered yet.
When asked about Trump’s speculation about the cause of the crash, Homendy said: “We don’t know enough facts to prevail in the human factor or to rule the human factor.”
Trump, who was flanked by his Vice President and rewinded in secretaries of defense and transport, began his comments with an appeal for unit in “a moment of fear”, as “the differences between the Americans do not fade”.
But he quickly started a political attack against DemocratsWith the statement that ex-president Barack Obama and Joe Biden had reduced the standards that were able to qualify as air traffic controls.
“I first put security, Obama, bidges and the Democrats put politics in the first place. . . And their politics was worse. “
He said: “For an air traffic controller, we want the brightest, the smartest, the sharpest. We want someone who is mentally superior and adds that “I don’t believe” that people with “severe disabilities” should be air traffic controls.
After he apparently accused the guilt of the air traffic regulators, he turned his attention to the BLACK HAWK crew.
“They had a pilot problem from the point of view of the helicopter because it was visual. It was a very clear night. . . The American Airlines plane was shining, ”said Trump.
“I have helicopters. You can stop a helicopter very quickly. It had the ability to go up or down, to turn the ability, and the rotation was not the right one, ”he added.
US defense officers said the Black Hawk had flown to routine training by an experienced crew.
Trump said that the investigators tried to determine whether the troops used night vision equipment, which “can change their perspective from the cockpit”. A defense officer said the army could not confirm whether the crew was wearing night vision glasses.
Defense Minister Pete Hegseth said that the three soldiers in the helicopter “” had “” in a routine annual night flight of a standard corridor for the continuity of the government “. The troops included a young pilot, a staff of Sergeant and two main officials.
“Tragically, a mistake was made last night. . . There was a kind of survey problem that we immediately examined at the dod and army level, ”he said, adding that what happened was” absolutely unacceptable “.
John Koziol, Us Army Aviation expert, said, given the experience of the flight crew, “this should not have been a problem to know exactly where they were”.
He called the corridor “relatively easy to fly” and said that the helicopter’s route had been flown by the army and other government aircraft almost every day.
On Thursday, officials said that the respondents had previously recovered 28 corpses from the American flight and a body from the Black Hawk.
Trump said that the Russian citizens were on board the flight and the United States would make it easier to return its bodies. Since Moscow in Ukraine in the full invasion of Ukraine, it has not been a direct flight between the United States and Russia.
Serious aviation accidents are rare in the United States. The last big accident with a US trade aircraft was in 2009 when 49 people were killed on board a Colgan Air flight who collapsed in a house near Buffalo, New York.
Trump asked people to fly further.
