- The most deadly air shock in the United States since 2001, as officials, do not say there are no survivors.
- President Trump failures in the diversity efforts of the government behind the tragedy.
- Passengers included American and Russian artistic skaters.
The researchers recovered on Thursday the black boxes of a passenger plane whose collision in the air with a military helicopter on the Potomac River in Washington killed 67 people, since rescuers took out the bodies of the victims of the ice water.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, launched a political attack blaming the diversity and inclusion policies defended by his Democratic predecessors for causing the incident.
The politicization of Trump's tragedy occurred when the National Transportation Security Board (NTSB) said it had recovered the cabin voice recorder and the flight recorder of the Bombardier plane operated by a subsidiary of American Airlines that He crashed into a Black Hawk army helicopter on Wednesday night.
“The recorders are in NTSB laboratories for evaluation,” said the agency in a statement to AFP.
According to a New York Times Report, the staff was thin in the control tower at the Reagan National Airport, where the plane was about to land when the collision occurred.
A controller, instead of the usual two, was handling plane and helicopter traffic, the Times He cited a preliminary report from the Federal Aviation Administration as he said.
A fireball broke out in the night sky and both planes fell into the potomac ice cream, leaving rescue teams with the gloomy and difficult task of looking for bodies in the dark and cold.
More than 40 bodies had been recovered until Thursday night, according to reports from the US media.
Trump Politica El Choque
Trump, who assumed the position 10 days ago, converted a press conference on the disaster into a platform for his crusade against diversity, equity and inclusion or DEI, a series of measures often of decades aimed at combating racism and Sexism in the United States.
Accusing their Democratic predecessors Joe Biden and Barack Obama of having kept the good employees outside the Aviation Agency in search of Dei, he said: “They actually left with a directive:” Too white. “And we want the competent people” .
The passenger plane transported 64 people and Black Hawk had three on board.
The collision, the first important accident in the United States since 2009, when 49 people were killed near Buffalo, New York, happened as American Eagle Flight 5342 of Wichita, Kansas came to land.
Reagan National is an important airport located a short distance from the Washington center, the White House and the Pentagon. The airspace is extremely occupied, with civil and military airplanes a constant presence.
Trump opened his white house conference talking about the anguish of the nation.
However, he then launched to the extended side against Dei, pointing directly to the secretary of openly gay transport of Biden, Pete Buttigieg.
“It has run it directly to the ground with its diversity,” Trump said.
The message was hit at home when Trump's vice president, JD Vance, and the new Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegesh Americans capable of responsible work.
Asked again for journalists if I was blaming the diversity of the workplace for the accident, Trump replied: “It could have been.”
Buttigieg replied in X, calling Trump “despicable.”
“As families cry, Trump should lead, don't lie,” he said.
Democratic senator Chris Murphy published that Trump's comments “blame the hiring of women and black people from FAA for the accident, was unpleasant.”
“He is in charge. This happened on his clock,” Murphy said.
However, Trump doubled the issuance of an official memorandum that ordered the Government to investigate “the deterioration of the hiring of” under biden and “replacement” standards of any unqualified person.
Skaters between victims
Among those on the plane were several American skaters and coaches, said American artistic skating. The authorities in Moscow also confirmed the presence of the Russian couple Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, who won the world title of 1994 couples.
Two Chinese citizens were also among the victims of the accident, Chinese news agency Xinhua Reported Friday in Beijing, citing the Chinese embassy.
The strength of the collision soon made it clear that the survivors were unlikely.
“I just saw a fireball and had gone,” an air traffic controller was heard to tell a colleague after communication with the helicopter was cut.
Transport officials said both airplanes were in standard flight patterns on a clear night with good visibility.
And Hegseth said the helicopter had “a rather experienced crew that was doing an annual night evaluation required.”
