President Donald Trump blamed the deadly collision between a passenger jet and an Army chopper over the Potomac River on an ”obsolete” air traffic control system and “a lot of mistakes.”
Trump made the remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday as he discussed the Jan. 29 disaster that claimed 67 lives.
“It’s amazing that it happened. And I think that’s going to be used for good. I think what is going to happen is we’re all going to sit down and do a great computerized system for our control towers. Brand-new, not pieced together, obsolete,” he said.
The President revealed that his own jet’s pilot uses a system from another country because he believes the existing US system is outdated.
He also lamented the billions of dollars spent to “renovate an old, broken system” instead of capitalizing on something new.
The deadliest plane crash in the U.S. since 2001 remains under active investigation as officials work to recover the wreckage of the submerged Black Hawk.
