Trump began firing FAA staff hours before Delta flight crash | US | News [Video]

The Trump administration began the process of dismissing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees just hours before a terrifying Delta Air Lines flight crash in Toronto.

Flight CRJ-900 was en route to Ontario from Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport when it skidded on the ice and flipped over, but astonishingly only around eight people were injured following a chilling warning.

The shocking accident occurred just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in January and on the same day FAA staff had their lives turned upside down. Probationary workers were targeted in late-night emails on Friday informing them they had been dismissed, according to David Spero, president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists union.

The affected workers include personnel hired for FAA radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, one air traffic controller told the Associated Press. The National Air Traffic Controllers Association stated briefly on Monday that it was “analyzing the effect of the reported …