The American Air Electrical Body in Botomac
The 5342 US Airways Harms Candle, which participated in a collision with a Black Hawk helicopter in the US Army. (Lee Green in favor of Fox News Digital)
president Donald Trump On Thursday, two executives appointed a new deputy of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and demanding an immediate evaluation of aviation safety.
The orders came yet US Airways aircraft 64 Black Hawk helicopters and helicopters carried in the army with three soldiers at about 9 pm on Wednesday.
The plane fell to the cold Botomac River near Reagan National Airport, leaving 67 people who were supposed to be dead.
In the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump signed an order appointed by Chris Roshilo, in charge of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
The victims who were identified in the crash
Search and rescue efforts at a wreckage site in the Botomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington Airport early Thursday morning, January 30, 2025, in Arlington, Virginia. (Carolyn throw/AP image)
Roshilo recently held the position of CEO of the National Business Association (NBAA) and has held multiple leadership roles in the Federal Aviation Administration during his 20 -year -old term, including the director of the Emergency Operations and Investigations Office.
The emergency respondents evaluate the wreckage of the aircraft in the Botomac River near the Ronald Reagan Washington Airport on January 30, 2025, in Arlington, Virginia. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
The American Professional League wrote in a “welcome” statement.
“Chris is a prominent leader who will be good in the Federal Aviation Administration, and he is good for aviation and good for the country, especially at this difficult time,” said Ed Paulin, President and CEO of NBAA. “It has shown excellence at every level in the government, military and aviation industry.”
Capital plane crash line: The air collision includes 67 passengers, crew members and soldiers
Trump described Roshilo as a “very capable man” while signing.
The second executive order was to conduct an immediate flight safety and high “efficiency” Diversity, fairness and inclusion (Dei).
The 5342 US Airways Harms Candle in the Botomac River in Washington, DC, January 30, 2025. (Lee Green in favor of Fox News Digital)
During the signing of the matter, he said that the policies of former presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama were “crazy”.
The memorandum says that the Obama administration submitted a CV in the Federal Aviation Administration to convert the focus on employment away from objective efficiency, and later encouraged the Biden administration to employ persons with severe mental disabilities.
“During my first state, my administration raised standards to achieve the highest safety and excellence standards,” Trump wrote in the memo. “The Biden Administration rejected the merit -based recruitment, which requires all departments and executive agencies to implement the dangerous” equity and inclusion “tactics, and to recruit individuals specifically with” intense “intellectual disabilities in FAA.”
A plane is flying near Ronald Reagan Washington Airport after the US Eagle Flight 5342 and Black Hawk collided in Arlington, Virginia, January 30, 2025. (Eduardo Monoz/Reuters)
While Trump ordered an immediate return to the employment based on merit, employment and promotion on his second day in his position, he indicated that the last plane accident “confirms the need to raise safety and efficiency as the FAA priority.”
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Trump said on Thursday that the collision was “the meeting of the bad decisions that were made, and you have people who lost their lives and lost their lives violently.”
Louis Cassiano of Fox News Digital contributed to this story.
