It comes less than three weeks after an American Airlines regional plane a US Army helicopter collided and dropped into the Potomac River in Washington, DC, killing 67 people and marking the worst aviation disaster in the US since 2001.
President Donald Trump has started firing hundreds of air traffic controllers weeks after the deadly American Airlines jet and Black Hawk helicopter crash.
REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo] The National Air Traffic Controllers Association stated on Monday that it is ‘analyzing the effect of the reported federal employee terminations on aviation safety, the national airspace system and our members’.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo] At the time, one controller was handling commercial airline and helicopter traffic at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
Trump and Tesla and X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk, his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head, have fired officials and convinced 77,000 employees to voluntarily resign in less than a month.
