Donald Trump blamed the “obsolete” air control system for the collision between a plane and a helicopter near Washington

The president of the United States Donald Trump He blamed the computer system on Thursday “obsolete”Used by United States air traffic controllers for the deadly collision of last week between a passenger plane and an army helicopter, and promised to replace it.

Trump said during an event that “they occurred Many mistakes”On January 29, when an American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, collided with an army helicopter while the plane was about to land at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, killing the 67 people aboard the two aircraft.

Immediately after the tragedy, Trump blamed the diversity hiring programs for the accident. But on Thursday, he responsible for the computer system used by air traffic controls in the country.

“It’s amazing that Trump said during a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast at the United States Capitol. “And I think that will be used for good. I think what is going to happen is that we are all going to sit and make a large computerized system for our control towers. Totally new, not rebuilt, obsolete. ”

Trump said the United States spent billions of dollars trying to “renew an old and broken system” instead of investing in a new one. He mentioned that in his own private Jet, he uses a system from another country when he lands because his pilot says that the existing system is obsolete.

Federal officials have been expressing their concern for overload and lack of personnel of the air traffic control, especially after a series of clashes between airplanes in US airports. Among the reasons that have adduced to explain the Personnel shortage are little competitive wages, long shifts, intensive training and mandatory retirement.

Trump said that if the nation had a newer system, the alarms would have sounded when the Black Hawk helicopter, which was in a training exercise, reached the same altitude as the plane.

However, a report by the Armed Forces after the accident indicated that the controller received an alert that the plane and the helicopter were converging when they were still about 1.6 kilometers away. The controller responded by asking the helicopter if he had the plane in sight and directed the helicopter to pass behind the plane. The helicopter replied that he did have the plane in sight.

One of the first objectives of the research has been to confirm the altitude of the plane and the helicopter. The flight registrar of the plane indicated an altitude of 99 meters (325 feet).

Airport airport traffic control system data suggest that the helicopter was above its 61 meter flight roof (200 feet). The screen that the controller was watching that night showed that, according to the radar and other data, the helicopter was 91 meters (300 feet), said the NTSB, noting that the figure would have been rounded at 30 meters (100 feet) plus more close.

To obtain more precise information, researchers need to be able to examine the remains of the Black Hawk still submerged to verify the data. The helicopter is not expected to be recovered until the end of this week.

This accident was the deadliest in the United States since November 12, 2001, when a Jet crashed in a neighborhood in New York City just after takeoff, killing the 260 people on board and five on land.

(With AP information)