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  Newsmax: Longtime TV host and bestselling author Bill O'Reilly told Newsmax on Thursday that "human error" and "incompetence" will prove to be the two causes behind the plane crash that killed 67 people outside of Washington, D.C. Whether President Donald Trump is correct in his assessment earlier Thursday that the lowering of standards due to diversity, equity, and inclusion hires in the Biden administration is also to blame, O'Reilly said that will require "more investigation." O'Reilly joined "Finnerty" to talk about the collision Wednesday night between an American Airlines jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew that collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter and its three occupants at Ronald Reagan National Airport. "I think there's human error here, of course. There's no other explanation for it. Air traffic control is responsible, particularly in that area. So I think that that will unfold that way. There...

 Newsmax: President Donald Trump, in a post on social media early Thursday, criticized the control tower workers and the crew of a Black Hawk military helicopter involved in a deadly midair collision between American Airlines Flight 5342 and the helicopter over the Potomac River Wednesday night. Wednesday night, the passenger jet, carrying 60 passengers and four crew members, collided with the Army helicopter while attempting a landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport, resulting in a large search-and-rescue operation in the Potomac River. "The airplane was on a perfect and routine line of approach to the airport," Trump posted on Truth Social . "The helicopter was going straight at the airplane for an extended period of time. It is a CLEAR NIGHT, the lights on the plane were blazing, why didn't the helicopter go up or down, or turn. Why didn't the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane. "This is a bad situation...