Investigators are still working to determine the cause of America’s worst aviation disaster in more than 20 years and how the two aircraft were allowed to get so close to one another.

While US President Donald Trump suggested his predecessors’ diversity policies could be to blame, the accident has re-ignited debates over the safety of some of the world’s most congested airports.

So what do we know so far about this accident? Have our skies become too congested? We’ll ask the experts.

In the second part of the programme, we discuss the short-lived suspension of parcel services from mainland China and Hong Kong to the United States, following US President Donald Trump's imposition of tariffs on China.


9:05am-9:30am: Washington DC plane crash

9:05am-9:30am: Anthony Brickhouse, US based aviation safety expert

9:05am-9:30am: Ronald Bazman, retired air traffic manager at Burlington Air Traffic Control Tower and Approach Control


9:30am-10:00am: Impact of US tariffs on the shipping industry

9:30am-10:00am: Aditya Halan, Chief Technology Officer at Floship

9:30am-10:00am: Alan Lung, political analyst and Co-convenor (International), The Path of Democracy