US President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders to appoint a new FAA Acting Administrator and order an immediate assessment of aviation safety.

An American Eagle regional jet collided with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter on final approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Grainy video of a military helicopter colliding with an American Eagle flight reveals only part of the story—a puzzle investigators will work to piece together in the months ahead. According to Dallas aviation attorney and pilot Ladd Sanger,

The runway American Eagle Flight 5342 was supposed to land on will be closed until Feb. 7, according to a memo sent to pilots on Thursday.

An NTSB-led investigation is in full swing to identify factors that led to the Jan. 29 midair collision between an American Eagle Bombardier CRJ-700 operated by PSA Airlines on approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) and a U.S. Army Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter.

Without evidence, President Trump claimed that the FAA’s diversity initiatives may have contributed to the collision.

The athletes were flying from Wichita, Kan. to Washington D.C. on American Eagle Flight 5342 when the crash occurred around 9 p.m., the Federal Aviation Administration said.

The flights from The Sunflower State to the nation’s capital had been halted after American Airlines Flight 5342 had a midair collision with a helicopter on its approach to Reagan National Airport