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Trump claimed the helicopter exceeded the allowable altitude at the time of the crash

Trump: helicopter that collided with plane near Washington was flying too high
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The Black Hawk military helicopter that earlier collided with an American Airlines passenger jet near Washington, DC, was flying too high, above acceptable standards. This was stated by US President Donald Trump on January 31.

"The Black Hawk helicopter was flying too high, too high. It was well above the limit of 200 feet (about 61 meters - Ed.). It's not that hard to figure out, is it," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

On the night of January 30, an American Airlines passenger plane and a Black Hawk military helicopter collided near Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. After the crash, they fell into the Potomac River. There were 60 passengers and four crew members aboard the plane. More than 40 bodies of the dead have been recovered from the river, according to the latest reports.

Trump reported no survivors of the plane crash in Washington. He called the crash horrific and said the tragedy could have been avoided if the control tower had told the helicopter crew to change course.

CNN reported the day before that one of the flight recorders (black boxes) of the crashed passenger plane was recovered from the Potomac River.

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