U.S. authorities have charged a man with pointing a laser at Marine One, the presidential helicopter, while it carried President Donald Trump, according to a court filing made public Monday.

President Donald Trump seemed to place the blame on the soldier piloting a U.S. Army helicopter for a fatal collision with an American Airlines passenger jet.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday insisted he was in a near-fatal helicopter ride with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, although Brown said the incident never happened and another politician said he had been on a similar flight with Trump decades earlier, News.az reports citing Reuters .