President Donald Trump said on Friday that a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter was flying too high before it collided with an American Airlines-operated jet near Washington on Wednesday evening in the worst U.S. aviation disaster in decades.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote that the Army “helicopter was flying too high, by a lot” and “was far above the 200 foot limit,” referring to the maximum altitude those helicopter flights can go.
“That’s not really too complicated to understand, is it?” he then asked. The crash remains under investigation by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, which has not yet revealed a cause….