President Donald Trump's remarks this week blaming diversity recruitment at the FAA as a potential reason for the plane crash that killed 67 people has drawn attention to the agency’s attempts to address its most pressing and long-standing staffing problem.

Hours after a plane crashed over the Potomac River a few miles from the White House, President Donald Trump held a press briefing in which he blamed his predecessors’ diversity hiring policies as a possible reason for the accident.

The former fiancée of the American Airlines pilot involved in the deadly, mid-air collision in Washington D.C. last week hit out President Donald Trump for his “insensitive” attempt to blame the crash on diversity policies.

Former fiancee of Flight 5342 pilot rebukes Trump’s DEI allegations “The politicization of this man's death is entirely inappropriate." One day after the deadliest plane crash in the U.S. in over two decades,