{"id":31985,"date":"2025-01-30T21:10:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T21:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/leaderless-faa-begins-investigation-of-washington-plane-crash\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T21:10:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T21:10:41","slug":"leaderless-faa-begins-investigation-of-washington-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/leaderless-faa-begins-investigation-of-washington-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaderless FAA begins investigation of Washington plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former chief resigned 10 days ago, after Elon Musk, a close adviser to Donald Trump, called for him to quit<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/jan\/30\/plane-crashes-near-washington-dc-after-mid-air-collision-with-military-helicopter-follow-live\">Washington DC plane crash \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/30\/dc-plane-crash-victims\">First confirmed victims include figure skating champions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Questions swirled in Washington on Thursday as the Federal Aviation Administration began its investigation of the Reagan airport crash without a permanent leader \u2013 its former chief resigned 10 days ago, after Elon Musk, the SpaceX CEO and close adviser to Donald Trump, called for him to quit.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Whitaker, a 30-year aviation industry veteran, was unanimously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commerce.senate.gov\/2023\/10\/senate-unanimously-confirms-michael-whitaker-to-lead-faa\/df0383fa-f1ab-4f11-8fd7-0b518678af52\">confirmed<\/a> as FAA administrator by the Senate in October 2023. He resigned last Monday, the day Trump was inaugurated as president.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/30\/dc-plane-crash-faa-investigation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former chief resigned 10 days ago, after Elon Musk, a close adviser to Donald Trump, called for him to quit Washington DC plane crash \u2013 latest updates First confirmed victims include figure skating champions Questions swirled in Washington on Thursday as the Federal Aviation Administration began its investigation of the Reagan airport crash without a &#8230; <a title=\"Leaderless FAA begins investigation of Washington plane crash\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/leaderless-faa-begins-investigation-of-washington-plane-crash\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Leaderless FAA begins investigation of Washington plane crash\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}