""DCA is one of the most demanding airports in the world. It also has what’s known as ‘helicopter alley’ with hundreds of police, military, news and rescue helicopters criss-crossing the Potomac River,
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Pete Buttigieg Has Fired Back At 'Despicable' Donald TrumpPete Buttigieg, the former United States Secretary of Transportation, has reached his breaking point with President Donald Trump. On Thursday afternoon, Trump held a press conference to discuss the tragic accident involving American Airlines Flight 5342 and a U.
He ran his city into the ground and he's a disaster now. He's just got a good line of (expletive)," Trump claimed Thursday during a press conference. "You know how badly everything's run since he ran the Department of Transportation.
"Despicable. As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch," Buttigieg wrote on X.
Staffing levels at the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport were 'not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic,' according to a preliminary report
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Trump left more questions than answers in his expletive attacks on Democrats and diversity practices during Thursday's press conference.
A collision between a passenger jet and US Army helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport late Wednesday marked the first time in more
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DC plane crash live updates: American Airlines jet black boxes recovered, source says
Black boxes recovered from Washington DC plane crash
National Transportation Safety Board says flight data recorders have been found and will be analysed at a laboratory
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DC plane crash latest updates: 'Black box' recorder recovered from jet which collided with helicopter killing 67
Without conclusive evidence on what caused a deadly midair crash President Donald Trump tied it to the government's DEI efforts.
President Trump on Thursday appeared to blame diversity initiatives at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for weakening safety following a deadly midair collision near Reagan National
President Donald Trump said there were no survivors when an American Airlines flight collided with a Black Hawk by Reagan National Airport.
The midair collision between the American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter near Washington DC claimed the lives of 67 people, including talented young figure skaters
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