Elon Musk's longstanding FAA feud is being floated as a reason for agency deficiencies leading up to crash. Credit: Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg via In the late evening hours of Jan. 29, a U.S. Army helicopter collided with a descending American Airlines passenger plane over the Potomac River en route to the Reagan National Airport in Washington,

The leader of the Federal Aviation Administration stepped down from his position mere months after billionaire Elon Musk demanded that he do so, meaning that the FAA is missing a chief in the aftermath of the worst aviation disaster in the US in years.

At a press conference Thursday with rescue officials, newly confirmed Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy walked away without answering when questioned about whether the FAA had an acting director in