The U.S. president accused his Democratic predecessors – Barack Obama and Joe Biden – of serious negligence as regards standards in traffic control procedures. He said, for example, that people were employed who, for various reasons, should not be liable for safety in aviation. “In my first term, I changed Obama’s standards (...). Biden cancelled these changes – he said.
– I'm speaking to you present at a hard moment. It's been a very hard night. It's an unimaginable disaster. We mourn all man we have lost," he said. US president Donald Trump at a press conference on the central crash close Reagan National Airport.
That's where the passenger plane is. American Airlines collided with the Blackhawk chopper and fell into the river Potomac. There were 60 passengers and crew members aboard a device flying from Wichita to the U.S. capital. There were 3 soldiers in the helicopter. All passengers and crew members died in the crash.
– It's hard to imagine suffering. In the coming days, we will effort to explain the reasons for the tragedy. In these moments The differences between Americans fade. present we are 1 family. We have a broken heart, said Trump. “We do not know what led to this catastrophe, but we have any very strong opinions and ideas,” he added.
Trump noted that there were people of different nationalities on board the plane. – There were Russians there, we are in contact with Russia to let the transport of bodies to the country – he added.
The president said he appointed the admin of the national Aviation Administration Chris Rocheleau.
A plane crash in the United States. Trump hit the Democrats.
President Trump besides stated that Democrats reduced requirements and standards in the work of flight controllers.
– During my first term, I changed Obama's standards. Only the best people could work in flight control. There were people of a truly advanced level, it had not been so before – Trump said.
"Joe Biden cancelled these changes and standards fell highly low. Obama and the Democrats put politics above standards," he noted.
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– My predecessors lowered standards for flight controllers, putting diversity above safety," Trump said. The U.S. president suggested that low standards and the promotion of diversity and inclusion were the origin of the accident.
Trump stressed that "the democratic policy was very bad and their way of governing even worse". “A fewer days ago, I signed a decree to reconstruct the best standards for flight controllers,” he added, “now we have the safest flights worldwide.”
