The two black boxes of the plane which crashed Thursday, January 30 in Washington, after a collision with a helicopter having left 67 dead, were found in the evening by the investigators, who seek to understand the causes of the worst disaster Aerial in the United States since an airliner had crashed shortly after taking off in New York in November 2001. The cockpit voice recorder and the recorder of the device’s flight data will now be analyzed by The American Transport Safety Agency (NTSB), responsible for determining the origins of this accident.
If the NTSB officials insisted that they had “no enough elements” at this stage to establish or exclude causes, indicating that they plan to publish a preliminary report “within 30 days”, Donald Trump was quick to bring this drama to the political field, in particular by attacking programs promoting diversity within the American public service.
The “diversity” online in sight
While the American presidents generally take on the role of comforters when America is bereaved, the new American president has rather chosen to be the chief prosecutor of the country. “I gave priority to security. Obama and Biden and the Democrats put politics first,” he attacked since the White House podium During a press point on the crashaccusing his predecessors of having lowered the level of requirement among air controllers, to promote the recruitment of people from racial or sexual minorities, or disabled people.
He has again targeted programs that promote diversity within the American administration, and more specifically of the American aviation regulator, the FAA. “They even gave a directive: ‘too white’. Now we want competent people,” said the Republican president, who also promised an in -depth investigation to establish the causes of the accident.
Former Minister of Transport under the presidency of Joe Biden, the Democrat Pete Buttigieg qualified this questioning of “abject”. “While families are in mourning, Donald Trump should lead, and not lie,” he urged him. “We have given priority to security, reduces accidents avoided narrowly, strengthened air traffic control and have not recorded any deaths linked to a commercial plane accident on millions of flights under our responsibility. President Trump Now supervises the army and the FAA.
Pressed questions to find out if he was directly involved in air controllers and diversity policies to explain the disaster, Donald Trump has recognized “not know” yet but added that “it could be the case”. How did it get to this conclusion? “Because I have common sense and unfortunately many people do not have them,” said the Republican president, who had immediately warned that his administration had “very clear opinions and ideas” on origin disaster, and for whom air controllers should have detected the risk of collision of the two devices.
Faa redesign?
Donald Trump also pointed out the helicopter’s “incredibly bad” trajectory. The American president also announced the appointment of a new acting chief of the American aviation regulatory authority, the FAA. FAA boss Mike Whitaker announced in December that he would resign on January 20, the day of the inauguration of Donald Trump.
This agency has been criticized publicly on several occasions by Elon Musk, who criticized him for having hindered the activities of his SpaceX space company. The richest man in the world, a leading ally of Donald Trump, is now carrying out a consulting mission to reduce public expenditure.
The American Senator of Connecticut, Chris Murphy, deplored on X that “Trump deliberately plunged the FAA into chaos as soon as it entered. Musk has ousted the administrator of the FAA, so that the agency is found without chief;
Donald Trump had signed on January 21 an imposing decree on the FAA, which employs some 14,000 air controllers, to change its recruitment policy by renouncing its diversity objectives. This text was criticized by democratic elected officials, while the air traffic control sector is already suffering from a staff shortage.