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A crew recovers the flight wreck 5342 American Airlines, which was involved in a collision with a U.S. Army Hag Hawk helicopter. (Leigh Green for Fox News Digital)
President Donald Trump On Thursday they signed two executive orders designating a new Deputy Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and ordered an immediate evaluation of aviation safety.
Orders arrived after a American Airlines Plane He was wearing 64 people and a helicopter from the Black Hawk army, which carried three soldiers, crashed into the air at 9 pm on Wednesday.
The plane fell into the cold Potomac river near Reagan National Airport, leaving 67 alleged people.
On Thursday at the Oval Office, Trump signed an designant order Chris Rocheleau acting as administrator of the Aviation Federal Administration (FAA).
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Search and rescue efforts in a ship wreck on the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, early Thursday morning, January 30, 2025, in Arlington. (Carolyn throws/photo AP)
Rocheleau recently served as CEO of the National Business Show Association (NBAA) and held multiple leadership functions in the FAA during his more than 20 years, including director of the Emergency Office Office. and research.
Those who respond to emergencies evaluate the aircraft accident on the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington, on January 30, 2025, in Arlington. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
The NBAA wrote in a statement that “welcomed” the announcement.
“Chris is a prominent leader who will be good for the FAA, good for aviation and well for the country, especially at this difficult time,” said NBAA CEO and CEO, Ed Bolen. “He has shown excellence at all levels of government, military industry and aviation.”
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Trump called Rocheleau a “very capable boy” while signing the order.
A second executive order ordered an immediate evaluation of aviation safety and an elevation of “competition” Diversity, equity and inclusion (Dei).
A crew recovers the flight ship 5342 Airlines in the Potomac River in Washington, DC, January 30, 2025. (Leigh Green for Fox News Digital)
By signing the order, he said former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama’s Dei policies were “just crazy”.
The Memorandum says that the Obama administration introduced a biographical questionnaire to the FAA to move away the approach to the hiring of objective aptitude and the administration of Biden later encouraged the recruitment of people with “severe intellectual disabilities “.
“During the first term, my administration increased standards to reach the highest standards of safety and excellence,” Trump wrote in the note. “The administration of Biden demandedly rejected the merit -based contracting, demanding that all departments and executive agencies implement dangerous tactics of” capital of diversity and inclusion “and specifically recruit people with” severe “intellectual disabilities to the FAA. “
A plane flies near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after a flight collision 5342 American Eagle and a Hawk Black in Arlington, Va., January 30, 2025. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)
While Trump ordered an immediate return on hiring, contracting and promotion based on his second day in office, he said that the recent air accident “emphasizes the need to raise security and competition as competition. to the priority of the FAA. “
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Trump said on Thursday the collision was a “confluence of bad decisions, and that you have people who lost their lives, they lost their lives violently.”
Louis Casiano of Fox News Digital contributed to this story.
