Jonathan Koziol, a retired Army chief warrant officer with more than 30 years of flight experience, told reporters that the flight was a nighttime qualification flight with an instructor pilot evaluating an experienced pilot on the flight routes that their unit routinely flies day and night around the Potomac River.

US president Donald Trump outlined his theory on the Washington air crash in a bizarre press conference - blaming 'diversity policies'

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg slammed the Commander-in-chief’s unproven comments, which were self-attributed to “common sense.”