In what seemed to be a significant revelation on the probe, US President Donald Trump stated on Friday that the Army Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into a regional passenger flight in Washington, DC, was flying too high at the time of the incident.
A request for comment was not immediately answered by the army.
Route 4 is a route that US military helicopters frequently fly over the Potomac River close to the crowded Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Those helicopter flights are limited to a maximum altitude of 200 feet (61 meters) for safety concerns.
“The Blackhawk chopper was significantly too high in the air. The restriction of 200 feet had been greatly exceeded. That shouldn’t be too difficult to comprehend, is it?
