President Donald Trump on Thursday convicted the deadly collision of a passenger jet and army helicopter last week, which he called the “obsolete” computer system used by US Airport Controllers, and vowed to change it.
Trump said during an incident that “a lot of mistakes were made on January 29” when an American airlines flying out of Kansas, an army helicopter collided with the helicopter because the aircraft landed at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington Was, all were killed, killing all 67 people died in two aircraft.
Immediately after the tragedy, Trump blamed programs to hire diversity for the accident. But on Thursday, he blamed the computer system used by the country’s air traffic controllers.
“It is surprising that it happened,” Trump said during a speech at the National Prayer breakfast at the US Capital. “And I think it is being used for good. I think what is going to happen, we are all going to sit and do a great computerized system for our control towers. The brand new – not together, obsolete. ,
Trump said that the US spent billions of dollars in an attempt to “renew an old, broken system” instead of investing in a new. He said that in his private jet, he uses a system from another country when he lands as his pilot states that the existing system is obsolete.
Federal officials have been concerned about an overtox and intelligent air traffic control system for years, especially after a series of calls close to aircraft at American airports. The reasons for which they have cited for the shortage of employees are ineffective salary, long changes, intensive training and compulsory retirement.
Trump said that if there was a new system in the nation, the alarm would have been a sound when the black hawk helicopter, which was on a training exercise, reached the same height as the aircraft.
But after the accident, an FAA report said that the controller received an alert that the aircraft and helicopters were changing when they were still more than a mile (1.6 km). The controller replied by asking the helicopter whether it had a plane and the helicopter was instructed to pass the back of the aircraft. The helicopter replied that this aircraft was in sight.
An initial attention of the investigation is confirming the height of the aircraft and helicopter. Jet’s flight recorder showed its height as 325 feet (99 m), plus or minus 25 feet (7.6 m).
Data from the airport air traffic control system suggests that the helicopter was above its 200-foot (61-meter) flight roof. The screen that the controller was watching on that night showed that based on radar and other data, the helicopter was at 300 feet (91 meters), NTSB said, seeing that the figure was near 100 feet (30 meters) near the nearest 100 feet. Must have been scored. ,
To obtain more accurate information, investigators need to be able to check the debris of the Still-Submarried Black Hawk to verify the data. The helicopter is not expected to be recovered by the end of this week.
The accident was the deadliest in the US since November 12, 2001, when a jet slammed into a neighborhood of New York City, just after the takeoff, killing all 260 people on board and five land.
After the accident, there was a concern that Trump’s efforts to reduce the size of the federal workforce could lead to a shortage of air traffic controllers if some of them accepted the resignation resignation sent to all federal employees last week. But air traffic controllers were told by his union on Thursday that some posts were included within the federal aviation administration, which was exempted.
The National Air Traffic Controllers Association told the members in its email that additional posts could be exempted on the basis of “national security or public safety responsibilities” of employees. The Sangh had already recommended its members to reject the proposals, which had grown a day before the midar collision.