Sixty-seven people are presumed dead after a passenger plane on approach to Reagan National Airport near Washington, DC, collided Wednesday night with a US Army helicopter midair, sending both aircraft into the Potomac River below,

Correspondent Sean Whelan reports that given where the Washington DC air crash happened, the involvement of the military, the proximity to the Pentagon and the White House and its current resident, the answer as to why the crash happened may come sooner than usual.

The president also suggested, without evidence, that diversity hiring policies in air traffic control could have been a factor

An American Airlines regional passenger jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed into the frigid Potomac River after a midair collision near Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night,