US president Donald Trump said diversity initiatives in the FAA contributed to a fatal plane-helicopter collision near Washington, D.C.
It was Trump's first press conference after a plane carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided with an Army helicopter.
Trump used a White House briefing about Wednesday night’s deadly collision between a passenger jet and a military helicopter over the Potomac River to rail against the Obama and Biden
The investigation into mid-air collision between an American Airlines plane & a US Army helicopter in which all 67 are feared dead has begun.
Donald Trump played the blame game at his first news conference since an American Airlines jet collided with a U.S. Army helicopter Wednesday and crashed into the Potomac River. Among those in the president’s crosshairs were Barack Obama,
President Donald Trump blasted former President Joe Biden and Democratic diversity measures after a midair collision above Washington, D.C.
US President lashes out at former President Joe Biden and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies after an American Airlines regional jet collided on Wednesday
Democrats harshly criticized President Donald Trump for a news conference Thursday in which he said that his predecessors and diversity were to blame for Wednesday night’s fatal collision of an Army helicopter and an American Airlines passenger plane landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport.
Trump has faced some criticism after he baselessly blamed Wednesday’s deadly plane crash on diversity hiring policies and the Biden administration. The mid-air collision of a passenger jet and an Army helicopter on Wednesday left no survivors, according to officials.
Investigators recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the Bombardier CRJ700 passenger jet, the National Transportation Safety Board said.
U.S. authorities said on Thursday it was not yet clear why a regional jet crashed into a U.S. Army helicopter at a Washington airport, killing 67 people in the deadliest U.S. air disaster in more than 20 years.