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Democrats harshly criticized President Donald Trump for a news conference Thursday in which he said that his predecessors and diversity were to blame for Wednesday night’s fatal collision of an Army helicopter and an American Airlines passenger plane landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport.

He told a news conference that diversity hiring efforts at the Federal Aviation Administration may have led to safety issues.

Jennifer L. Homendy, the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, said the probe will focus on several factors: “the human, the machine and the environment.”