No Survivors & DEI Blame Game After Wichita, Kansas Flight Black Hawk Crash

We've been updating an early morning post but feel like the latest news deserves another feature.

Here are the basics and more reporting regarding the politically charged aftermath . . . Check-it:

Washington Fire and EMS Chief John Donnelly said Thursday morning at a press conference that operations were beginning to switch from a rescue mission to a recovery mission.

About 60 people were believed to be on the American Airlines flight that collided with a UH-60 Black Hawk on its final approach to Reagan Washington National Airport in Alexandria, Va., just before 9 p.m. EST.

“At this point, we don’t believe there are any survivors from this accident, and we have recovered 27 people from the plane and one from the helicopter,” Donnelly said.

American Airlines said the flight was en route from Wichita, Kan.

UPDATE . . . Here's a statement from the Prez regarding policy . . . 

"I put safety first, Obama, Biden and the Democrats put policy first, and they put politics at a level that nobody's ever seen," Trump told reporters in the White House briefing room, referring to the policies, even as the investigation into what happened is just getting underway.

"I had to say that it's terrible," he said, citing what he called a story about a group within the FAA that had "determined that the [FAA] workforce was too white, that they had concerted efforts to get the administration to change that and to change it immediately. This was in the Obama administration, just prior to my getting there, and we took care of African Americans, Hispanic Americans."

But when a reporter pressed him, saying that similar language on DEI policies existed on the FAA's website under Trump's entire first term, Trump shot back, "I changed the Obama policy, and we had a very good policy and then Biden came in and he changed it. And then when I came in two days, three days ago, I said, a new order, bringing it to the highest level of intelligence."

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