The President says the crash wouldn’t have happened if the air traffic control computer system was newer, and he plans to replace it.

President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed last week’s deadly collision of a passenger jet and army helicopter on what he called an “obsolete” computer system used by US air traffic controllers, and he vowed to replace it.

President Trump says he thinks a more modern air traffic control computer system could have prevented last week’s deadly collision between a passenger jet and Army helicopter.

Government watchdogs and officials have warned for years that the nation’s air safety systems need to be modernized. The deadly plane crash into a river near Washington and a widespread outage for