When the Federal Aviation Administration started investigating the Reagan Airport collision accident, the problem broke out in Washington on Thursday without permanent leader-its former person in charge resigned 10 days ago. The close consultants of Elon Musk and Donald Trump called for him to ask him to resign.
Michael Whitaker is a 30 -year aviation veteran. He was unanimously confirmed as the Federal Aviation Administration administrative staff in October 2023.
On Wednesday night, a military black hawk helicopter collided with American airline jet aircraft. When the corpse was removed from the Potomac River, officials said that 67 people on the two planes died.
When Trump's new Minister of Transportation, Sean Duffy, was asked: "Is there a director of the Federal Aviation Administration?" He left the reporter.
Trump appointed Chris Rocheleau as a long career of joining FAA in 1996. He served as the FAA administrator until the Senate confirmed permanent choice.
The National Business Aviation Association led by Rocheleau (National Business Aviation Association), he praised "an outstanding leader who is good for FAA, which is beneficial to aviation and is beneficial to the country. In this challenge, in this challenge Time of Sexuality ""
According to reports, Rocheleau returned to FAA last week. However, according to Reuters: "FAA lasted for 10 days and refused to say who operated the agency on agency."
On Thursday, the conflict between Musk and Faa and Whitack returned to Headline.
Musk's anger comes from commercial interests, including competition with Boeing for government contracts. In 2022, FAA was fined SPACEX subsidiaries for violating the security agreement. Musk also said that the agency needed "radical reforms" and complained that it was "harassing space X".
In September 2024, Whitaker proposed to violate its government permits in the two rocket launch and fined more than $ 600,000.
Musk is the richest person in the world with a value of more than $ 40 billion. He said: "He needs to resign."
Whitaker may agree to Musk's demand for FAA reform, because he is facing challenges, including bankruptcy facilities and employee shortages, leading to the morale crisis of air traffic control staff.
But in December, after Trump defeated Joe Biden, Whitaker said he would resign.
He told the staff: "When I ended on the FAA, my confidence in implementing our safety tasks has never been strong."
Reagan Airport collision accident is the first major air disaster in the United States since 2009.
While speaking to reporters, Trump blamed his crash on his political enemies, as well as a fair and inclusive policy in FAA's diversity, fairness and inclusive policy.
Chris Murphy, a Democratic Senator in Connecticut, said that the remarks were "disgusting".
Murphy said that it took some time to find out the reason for the crash. Murphy added: "There are some real things: President Trump forces the manager of the Federal Aviation Administration to serve. Regular attacks on public employees. He forced the entire aviation security (consulting committee) to step down.
"We don't know if these things are related to this collapse, but we should spend time to realize the facts."