Recently, regarding the collision and crash incident involving a passenger plane and a military helicopter near Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump noted on the 31st (local time) that "the Black Hawk helicopter was flying too high."
On the same day, President Trump stated through his social media platform (SNS) "Truth Social" that "it (the Black Hawk helicopter) was flying much higher than the altitude restriction of 200 feet (about 60 m)." He then rhetorically asked, "Isn’t it not difficult to understand the cause of the accident?"
Earlier, on the 29th, an American Airlines passenger plane, approaching landing at Ronald Reagan Airport, collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter that was conducting training nearby, resulting in both aircraft crashing into the Potomac River. All 67 individuals, including passengers on the plane and soldiers aboard the helicopter, were killed.
The New York Times (NYT) reported the day before that the helicopter was deviating from its authorized route and altitude at the time of the accident. The Ronald Reagan Airport control tower had permitted the use of a flight path that flew close to the eastern embankment of the Potomac River below an altitude of 200 feet, but the helicopter had exceeded 300 feet and was 0.5 miles (approximately 800 m) off the authorized route at the time of the incident.