Families of Plane Crash Victims Seek Commitment from Trump on Safety Rules

Jan. 5, 2018

The families of victims who died in a 2009 airplane crash are seeking a commitment from President Trump to protect aviation safety rules after he boasted this week that his administration has been “very strict” on commercial aviation.

On Tuesday Trump took credit for reports that 2017 was the safest global year of commercial airline travel, even though the U.S. has not seen a deadly crash in years. 

The last fatal crash involving a U.S. passenger airline was the 2009 Colgan Air crash in New York, which killed 49 people on board and one person on the ground. 

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/367277-families-of-plane-crash-victims-seek-commitment-from-trump-on-safety