Wednesday night’s deadly mid-air collision in Washington, D.C., between an American Airlines jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter being used on a training mission was “preventable,” new Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said Thursday while appearing to agree with a social media post made earlier by President Donald Trump.

“We are going to wait for all the information to come in from this vantage point, but … what I’ve seen so far, do I think this was preventable? Absolutely,” Duffy said during a press conference Thursday morning, CNN reported. “We have early indications of what happened here.”

There were reportedly no survivors from the crash over the Potomac River.

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