President Trump’s remarks, suggesting that diversity in hiring and other Biden administration policies somehow caused the disaster, reflected his instinct to immediately frame major events through his political or ideological lens.

One of Sean Duffy’s first acts was to start dismantling rules demanding automakers hit fleet average of 50.4 mpg for cars by 2031

In his first act in office, new Trump Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy signed a memorandum directing the agency to review former President Joe Biden’s fuel economy standards, which aim to reduce vehicle emissions.

Rescuers were still pulling bodies from the Potomac River as Trump cast blame on the FAA, the Army, diversity programs and his predecessors.

American Airlines Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas, was attempting to land when the plane and a Black Hawk helicopter collided.

The investigation into mid-air collision between an American Airlines plane & a US Army helicopter in which all 67 are feared dead has begun.

Pete Buttigieg fired back at Donald Trump, saying he should be 'leading, not lying' after the president blamed him, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and diversity hiring for Wednesday's air crash.

Two of Reagan National Airport’s air traffic controllers were doing double duty Wednesday night, according to a government report.

Investigators confirmed they have recovered a cockpit voice recorder and a flight-data recorder from American Eagle Flight 5342, which will undergo analysis.

Reagan airport was at the center of a fierce safety debate last year. Lawmakers approved more flights anyway - ‘We’ve been pretty plain about our [safety] concerns, but it isn’t a good time to speculate right now,

A regional jet crashed into a US Army helicopter, killing 67 people in the deadliest US air disaster in more than 20 years. The DC Fire and EMS Department said that 41 bodies have so far been recovered from the wreckage of the plane crash in the Potomac River.

During the campaign, Musk demanded the resignation of FAA administrator Michael Whitaker, who clashed with Musk over regulating SpaceX and stepped down the day before Trump took office. That left the FAA leaderless until Trump, at a Thursday press conference after the crash, named an acting head of the agency.