On Friday morning, NBC chief Capitol Hill correspondent Ryan Nobles was tasked with providing Today with a full segment updating viewers on the investigation into the deadly January 29 mid-air crash over the Potomac River between an American Airlines flight and an Army black hawk helicopter, but predictably made sure to attack President Trump.
Nobles slammed Trump for “suggesting the aviation system is outdated without providing many examples.” In a clip from remarks to the National Prayer Breakfast, Trump said this: “We should have had better equipment. We don’t. We have obsolete equipment.”
Fact-check to Nobles: Pants on fire. The air traffic control system (ATC) is, in fact, antiquated. Says who? Well, here was Nobles’s own colleague Tom Costello — who actually covers aviation for NBC — hours earlier on Thursday’s NBC Nightly…
