I just realized that this accident happened just a few hours after the White House released its absurd statement about the New Jersey drones:

"After research and study, the drones that were flying over New Jersey in large numbers were authorized to be flown by the FAA for research and various other reasons," Leavitt said at a briefing Tuesday. Source

Basically, they're admitting that they lied and that some heavy shit was going on, but they're not going to tell us what that was, even though we paid for it.

Then this crash steals the headlines. I'm not saying the crash was done to draw the public's attention away from the empty statement on drones.... but it is a coincidence if you believe in coicidences.