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The president fired the current heads of the coast guard and TSA and all members of an aviation security committee (while leaving the committee technically still in existence) as part of a broader purge addressing "misuse of resources." We've also sworn in a new transportation secretary who promises to reduce regulations on self-driving cars and "restore confidence" in Boeing.

About an hour ago, a passenger plane landing at Ronald Regan nat'l airport (that's near Washington DC, not Washington state, for anyone confused by the headlines) collided with a military helicopter.

[update] 67 crew and passengers killed (no survivors). The president has blamed the crash on the dwarfism of the air traffic control operator, who seems to have not made any error -- the helicopter was higher than it was supposed to be and was possibly watching and avoiding the wrong passenger jet.