President Donald Trump says the Army Black Hawk helicopter involved in Wednesday’s tragic collision with an American Airlines passenger jet at Reagan National Airport was “flying too high, by a lot.”

In a post to his Truth Social account early Friday, the president said:

The Blackhawk helicopter was flying too high, by a lot. It was far above the 200 foot limit. That’s not really too complicated to understand, is it???

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