In a briefing that recalled his most extreme first term remarks, President Trump said without any evidence that diversity initiatives caused the midair collision.
Search crews on Thursday at the scene of the wreckage from the collision between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and a passenger jet near Washington on Wednesday night. The helicopter’s three-person crew and the airplane’s 60 passengers and four crew members all died in the crash.
The plane had been cleared to land on Reagan National Airport’s main runway. But in the final moments of the flight, air traffic control asked the pilot to land on a separate, intersecting runway.
The decision raised questions within the Federal Aviation Administration about congestion at Reagan National Airport, one of the nation’s busiest, a person briefed on the event said.
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