Trump targets FAA diversity efforts in plane crash probe despite no evidence they played any role
President Donald Trump's remarks this week blaming diversity recruitment at the FAA as a potential reason for the plane crash that killed 67 people has drawn attention to the agency’s attempts to address its most pressing and long-standing staffing problem.
Complaints about the FAA’s hiring policies resurfaced after the American Airlines passenger plane and a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Washington, DC.
The president's comments upset some disability advocates, including the Philadelphia advocacy group Vision For Equality.
During his Thursday press conference about the deadly Wednesday collision between a passenger jet and military helicopter ...
During Trump’s first term, the FAA began a program to hire air traffic controllers with the conditions that Trump decried.
The Trump memorandum directs the FAA “to immediately review all hiring decisions and changes to safety protocols." ...
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