2 days ago · NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump wasted little time this week trying to assign blame for the nation’s deadliest air disaster in more than two decades. Among his chief targets: An FAA diversity hiring initiative he suggested had undermined the agency’s effectiveness. “But certainly for an air traffic controller, we …

3 days ago · The crash, which claimed the lives of all 67 people aboard both vessels, occurred just before President Donald Trump announced he appointed 22-year FAA veteran Christopher Rocheleau as acting FAA ...

2 days ago · These efforts remained in place throughout President Donald Trump’s first administration. The FAA under Trump expanded its effort to hire people with disabilities, announcing in 2019 a program ...

2 days ago · President Trump then claims that the FAA had a diversity push that included "hiring people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities" and that the FAA pushed to "put diversity into the ...

Jan 22, 2025 · FLIGHTS SHOULD BE SUPERVISED BY THE BEST EMPLOYEES: President Donald J. Trump has signed a Presidential Memorandum terminating a Biden Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) hiring ...

3 days ago · Donald Trump claimed, without citing evidence, that DEI initiatives at the FAA were partly to blame for the tragic plane and helicopter collision in D.C.

3 days ago · During his Thursday press conference about the deadly Wednesday collision between a passenger jet and military helicopter near Reagan National Airport, President Donald Trump repeatedly suggested ...

3 days ago · One of the conditions referenced by Trump – epilepsy – is specifically mentioned as disqualifying in the FAA documents.Controllers also must pass a hearing test and have 20/20 or better vision ...

3 days ago · Follow live updates on the deadly plane crash in D.C. President Trump blamed diversity requirements at the Federal Aviation Administration and his two Democratic predecessors for the midair ...

3 days ago · Mike Whitaker, unanimously confirmed as the FAA administrator in October 2023, stepped down early from his five-year term on Jan. 20 when Trump took office and for 10 days the FAA declined to say ...