Emergency respondents worked to recover the wreckage of passengers and crew who died in an aerial collision near the Ronal Dragan Washington National Airport, but the critics of President Donald Trump, especially President Donald Trump. Signed a part of Trump's policy as a contribution. For crash.
“Last week, Trump fired the head of the Transport Security Bureau (TSA) and the head of the coast guard, and dissolved the Aviation Security Advisory Committee,” said X. The AP Communication reported on January 21 that Trump fired their heads and eliminated all members of the committee.
Another X post was “Your 2 on the second day, you have fired the head of your Transport Security Bureau. 2. You have fired the entire Aviation Security Advisory Committee. Directors.”
In the first week of his appointment, Trump announced HR cleaning, including frozen employment. However, Airlines experts said that Trump had almost unlikely to cause CRASH to drop between commercial jets from Wichita, Kangzas and military black Hawk helicopters. According to experts, one of his widespread presidential orders would have an effect in less than 10 days after Trump was swearing.
All the Transportation Safety Bureau, the US coastal security squad, and the Aviation Security Advisory Committee have played a role in aviation safety, but “President Trump's actions would not have such an immediate impact,” said the former U.S. Air Force. Jim Cardo said. Currently a Pilot with Colonel, a senior director of the Global and National Security Research Institute of South Florida University.
“All processes that control and escape air traffic in the DC area have been established for a long time,” Cardoso says. “Staff involved in the accident -two aircraft in the event of an accident and the air traffic controller (air traffic controller) have not been affected by the recent policy change of Trump's presidential order since January 20. did.
Johncox, a retired pilot, who runs an air security consulting company based in St. Petersberg, Florida, states:
“At this point, we don't know enough,” said Cox on January 30. He claimed that the crash was caused 24 hours after certain factors occurred, arguing that there was no basics.
Cox stated that the international standard for determining the cause of the crash was “not to guess.” You stay at the facts. The idea is that it is more important to get the right answer than a politically motivated answer. “
A clash survey can take several months. For the time being, we know what kind of behavior of Trump was related to aviation, and if they have this crash.
What did Trump do about aviation?
At the order of presidential on January 20, Trump enacted employment frozen to federal and private employees, stopping the open position and creating a new position.
However, the order was exempted by soldiers, “immigration, national security, or public security.” The White House told Politifact that air traffic control would be exempted from employment freezing for its role in public safety. The White House also stated that, unlike political appointments, air control officers do not change between the presidential government.
On January 21, Trump signed the Presidential Order “keeps Americans safely by aviation.” It eliminated diversity, fairness, inclusion, or DEI, and appointed the Secretary of the Federal Aviation Bureau to “return to a non -discriminatory, achievement -based employment.”
In addition, I ordered a performance review of “Individuals in critical safety positions”.
Talking to the reporters on January 30, Trump blamed the diversity of FAA and the recruitment policy for CRASH drop.
However, Cox stated that all pilots and air control officers involved in the collision on January 29 said that they were “satisfied the standards for their jobs” in response to the necessary training requirements. He said that the compliance was not changed. 。
The New York Times reported on January 30 that the number of people in the air traffic control tower, according to the internal spare FAA safety report, was “unusual between time and traffic.” The Times has been short of personnel for many years due to the sales of employees and strict budgets.
Meanwhile, the AP communication reported on January 21 that Trump has fired David Pecoske, the TSA administrator, and Linda Fagan, the coast of the coast guard.
However, TSA's safety responsibilities are generally developed mainly on security cleaning of passengers, freight, and aviation workers, not airplanes. And the coast guards are focusing on maritime safety.
Trump also fired all members of the Aeronautics Advisory Committee, a group, including the representatives of the private sector of the private sector. They advocate the TSA administrator about aviation security. The group was scheduled to meet on February 26. I usually meet four times a year.
X's post argued that Trump fired eight days ago with FAA's 400 “high -ranking officials” and 3,000 air traffic controllers. However, this is unfounded, and the White House told Politifact that the air controller was not fired.
In May 2024, CNN reported that the Air Traffic Control Bureau was facing a shortage of 3,000 controllers based on the number of FAA, and that the shortage of workers has contributed to a long shift and fatigue. did.
Caryn Baird, a researcher of Politifact, has contributed to this report.
