Investigators recovered the black boxes from a plane that collided with a helicopter over the Potomac River, killing 67 people. President Trump politicized the tragedy, blaming diversity and inclusion policies for the incident, sparking outrage.
Investigators yesterday recovered the black boxes. — Pic by AFPas a first-time user . Exclusively for Malay Mail readers: Use code WASHINGTON , Jan 31 — Investigators yesterday recovered the black boxes from a passenger plane whose mid-air collision with a military helicopter over Washington’s Potomac river killed 67 people, as rescuers pulled victims’ bodies from the freezing water.
One controller, rather than the usual two, was handling both plane and helicopter traffic, the Times quoted a preliminary Federal Aviation Administration report as saying. Accusing his Democratic predecessors Joe Biden and Barack Obama of having kept good employees out of the aviation agency in pursuit of DEI, he claimed: “They actually came out with a directive: ‘too white.’ And we want the people that are competent.”The collision — the first major crash in the United States since 2009 when 49 people were killed near Buffalo, New York — occurred as American Eagle Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas came in to land.
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy posted that Trump’s comments “blaming the FAA’s hiring of women and black people for the crash — was disgusting.”Trump doubled down, however, later issuing an official memo directing the government to investigate “deterioration in hiring standards” under Biden and “replacement” of anyone unqualified.Among those on the airliner were several US skaters and coaches, US Figure Skating said.
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