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The crew retrieves the wreckage of the American Airlines 5342 flight, which was involved in a collision with a Black Hawk Army helicopter. (Leigh Green for Fox News Digital)
President Donald Trump On Thursday, they signed two executive commands that they appointed to replace the Administrator of the Federal Air Force (FAA) and ordered an immediate assessment of aviation security.
The commands came after American Airlines plane Wearing 64 people and a military helicopter Black Hawk with three soldiers collapsed at midnight around 9pm on Wednesday.
The aircraft crashed into the cold River Potomac near the National Airport of Reagan, leaving 67 people who assumed he was dead.
At an oval office on Thursday, Trump signed a command that appointed Chris Rocheleau Acting Administrator Federal Air Force Administration (FAA).
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Efforts in search and rescue at the site of the Potomac River near the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Ronald Ronald Ronald Ronald Ronald on Thursday morning, January 30, 2025 in Arlington, Va. (Carolyn Kaste/AP Photo)
Rocheleau recently performed the post of executive director of the National Business Air Force (NBAA) and held multiple leading roles at FAAs during his 20-year term, including the director of the Emergency Operations and Investigation Office.
Emergency respondents are evaluated by aircraft wreckage in Rijeka Potomac near Ronald Reagan Washington Airport on January 30, 2025 in Arlington, Va. (Andrew Hardik/Getty Images)
NBAA wrote in a statement that she “welcomed” the announcement.
“Chris is an outstanding leader who will be good for FAA, good for aviation and good for the country, especially in this challenging time,” said the President and CEO of NBAA, Ed Bolen. “He showed excellence at all levels in the government, military and airline industry.”
Trump called Rocheleau a “very capable guy” as he signed the command.
Another executive order has ordered an immediate assessment of aviation security and increase in “competencies” Diversity, equality and inclusion (dei).
The crew retrieves the wreckage of the American Airlines Flight 5342 in the Potomac River in Washington, DC, January 30, 2025. (Leigh Green for Fox News Digital)
While signing the order, he said that Dei’s former president’s policies Joe Biden and Barack Obama “just crazy”.
The Memorandum says that Obama’s administration introduced a biographical questionnaire to FAA to transfer focus on employment with objective ability, and Biden administration later encouraged the employment of people with “heavy intellectual difficulties”.
“During my first term, my administration has raised standards to achieve the highest safety and excellence standards,” Trump wrote in a letter. “The Biden Administration has evilly rejected employment based on merit, demanding all the executive departments and agencies implement the tactics of dangerous” equality and inclusions of diversity “, and especially employ individuals with” heavy intellectual “disability in the FAA”.
The plane flies near Ronald Reagan Washington’s national airport after the U.S. Eagle Flight 5342 collision and the Black Jastreb in Arlington, Va., January 30, 2025. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)
While Trump ordered the immediate return to employment based on merit, employment and promotion on the second day in power, he noticed a recent fall of the aircraft “emphasizes the need to increase security and competencies as a priority of FAA.”
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Trump said on Thursday that the collision was “the mouth of the bad decisions that were made, and you have people who lost their lives, violently lost their lives.”
Louis Casiano, Fox News Digital, contributed to this story.
