Trump’s comments come a day after questioning the actions of the military helicopter pilot
US President Donald Trump attributed the blame on Wednesday to the Black Hawk helicopter who shocked a passenger plane.
“The Black Hawk helicopter was flying too high, from afar,” Trump wrote in a message published on his social network, Truth Social.
Trump said the helicopter was at an altitude “well above the 200 feet limit”, or 60 meters, and said he was convinced of his theory.
“It’s not very complicated to understand, isn’t it?” He said.
Air accident investigations may take months and federal investigators told reporters on Thursday they would not speculate about the cause.
The, from Wichita, Kansas, over the Potomac River, near the Ronald Reagan National Airport of Washington.
It includes more than a dozen artistic skaters who returned from a test.
The National Transport Security Authority has announced that it has “the flight data recorder and the ‘cockpit’ voice recorder, commonly known as ‘black boxes’,” ready for analysis in his laboratory, less than two kilometers from location of the accident.
It is the deadliest air disaster in the United States in almost a quarter of a century.
Trump’s comments come up a day after questioning the actions of the military helicopter pilot, while responsible for diversity initiatives for impairing air safety.
The crew of three army people at UH-60 Black Hawk was performing a continuity training mission of government planning at the time of the air crash.
Military aircraft often make training flights of this type in the country’s capital, Washington DC, and surroundings.
The goal is to familiarize themselves with the routes they would use in the case of a large catastrophe or an attack on the United States that required the displacement of important employees in the region of the capital.
“It is necessary to train while fighting, we need to rehearse a real -world scenario,” said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, when participating in the Fox and Friends program.
Hegseth noted that the Pentagon (defense headquarters) continues to have a duty to mitigate the risks, while performing this training.
But US forces need to “make sure, if unfortunately, there is an event in the real world where things need to happen, we can answer you by day or night,” he added.
