Investigators on Thursday recovered the black box from a passenger aircraft, which killed 67 people in a middle-host collision with a military helicopter on the Potomac River in Washington, as the rescue team killed the bodies of victims of cold water. Dragged.
US President Donald Trump began a political attack by his democratic predecessors blaming the diversity and inclusion policies by the champions to create the incident.
The National Transport Safety Board (NTSB) said that it had recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the Bombardier Jet, run by an American Airlines subsidiary, which was the Cockpit Voice Record and Flight Data Records from Bombardier Jet late Wednesday night. Was collapsed in the helicopter.
The agency said in a statement to AFP, “Recorders are in NTSB labs for evaluation.”
According to a New York Times report, the staffing at the Control Tower at Reagan National Airport was thin, where the airline was about to land when the collision occurred.
A controller, instead of normal two, was handling both the aircraft and helicopter traffic, the Times quoted an early federal aviation administration report.
A fireball exploded in the night sky and the two aircraft tumble in the icy Potomac, leaving the rescue team with severe, difficult tasks to search for bodies in deep and cold.
According to US media reports, more than 40 bodies were recovered by Thursday evening.
Trump politicizes the accident
Trump, who took over 10 days ago, changed a press conference on disaster on a platform for diversity, equity and inclusion against DEI-a series of decades-old measures often mean racism in the United States. And was to deal with sexism.
Accusing his Democratic predecessors Joe Biden and Barack Obama that good employees were excluded from the aviation agency in search of Dai, he claimed: “They actually came out with a instruction: ‘very white.” And we want those who are capable. ,
The passenger aircraft was carrying 64 people and there were three riders near Black Hawk.
Complete – The first major accident in the United States since 2009 when 49 people were killed near Buffalo, New York – from Wichita as American Eagle Flight 5342, Kansas came to the land.
Reagan National is a major airport that is located a short distance from the downtown Washington, White House and Pentagon. The airspace is extremely busy, a continuous appearance with civil and military aircraft.
Trump opened his white house press conference by talking about the suffering of the nation.
However, he then launched Biden’s openly in an expanded broadcide against DEI, with a direct target in Biden’s Gay Transport Secretary Pete Batigieg.
“He is running it correctly in the ground with his diversity,” said Trump.
This message was occupied as the house as Vice President of Trump, JD Vance, and the new Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, converted to podium to repeat-without proof-Hard-right theory measures of diversity enabled Americans Keep it out of responsible jobs.
When asked by reporters again, whether he was blaming the diversity of the workplace for the accident, Trump replied: “This could have happened.”
Buttigieg replied to X, called Trump “low”.
“As the family mourns, Trump should be a pioneer, not lying,” he said.
Democratic senator Chris Murphy posted that Trump’s comments “blamed the FAA for the accident to hire women and black people – disgusting.”
“He is in charge. It happened on his watch,” said Murphy.
Trump doubled, however, later released an official memorandum, which directed the government to investigate the “Hiring Standards in Hiring Standards” and anyone to investigate “replacement” under Biden.
Skaters among victims
There were many American skates and coaches on the airline, US Figure Skating said. Moscow officials also confirmed the presence of Russian doubles andgenia Sheeshkova and Wadim Naomov, who won the 1994 world couple title.
Two Chinese citizens were also among the accident victims, the state news agency Xinhua reported on Friday citing the Chinese Embassy in Beijing.
The force of the collision soon made it clear that there was no possibility of the remaining people.
After communication with the helicopter, a colleague was heard saying that an air traffic controller was seen as a fireball. ,
Transport officials said the two aircraft were on standard flight patterns at a clear night with good visibility.
And Hegseth said that the chopper had “a fairly experienced crew that was evaluating an essential annual night.”
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