After briefly offering his sympathies to the families of those killed in the crash, and confirming there were no survivors, he pivoted to assigning blame for the tragedy - taking aim at his political

US President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed diversity policies under Barack Obama and Joe Biden for poor safety standards after a deadly crash in which a military helicopter collided with a passenger plane over Washington,

President Trump on Thursday at first news conference since the aircraft collision over the Potomac River, blamed diversity requirements at the Federal Aviation Administration and Presidents Obama and Biden for the midair collision over the Potomac River on Wednesday night.

The American Airlines plane operating as American Eagle Flight 5342 collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport.

Rescuers were still pulling bodies from the Potomac River as Trump cast blame on the FAA, the Army, diversity programs and his predecessors.

An American Airlines plane and an Army helicopter collided Wednesday night near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

President Donald Trump began his White House briefing with a moment of silence and a prayer for the victims of Wednesday’s crash at Reagan National Airport.

U.S. authorities said on Thursday it was not yet clear why a regional jet crashed into a U.S. Army helicopter at a Washington airport, killing 67 people in the deadliest U.S. air disaster in more than 20 years.

US President Donald Trump blamed diversity hiring at the FAA and his Democratic predecessors for the American Airlines plane and helicopter collision over the Potomac River He provided no evidence and later admitted the investigation had just begun.

A day after the United States witnessed its deadliest aviation disaster in over two decades, a preliminary report from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) suggests the Reagan National Airport control tower — responsible for guiding pilots—was understaffed,

The president said on Thursday he would be meeting with some of the families of victims of the tragedy, but did not specify when