'One of the things that often happen when there is an aircraft mishap is that the people who are the most clueless, like President Trump, immediately blame the pilots,' Duckworth said.
CHICAGO -- As the investigation into a deadly plane crash in Washington, D.C., gets underway, U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth criticized President Trump for seeming to blame the crash on federal diversity and inclusion initiatives.'That's an attack on those pilots, and how dare he?' Duckworth told CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion. An American Airlines flight collided with a U.S.
'Duckworth said, as the investigation into the crash continues, the subcommittee will be looking into what kind of collision avoidance equipment was on board the Black Hawk, the flight patterns of both aircraft, training records for the pilots and air traffic controllers, information from the aircrafts' flight data recorders, and transcripts of all air traffic control transmissions leading up to the crash.'Now is not the time for speculation.
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