Senator to introduce a bill requiring Army helicopters to fly with key flight tracking technology turned on | News Channel 3-12

Senator to introduce a bill requiring Army helicopters to fly with key flight tracking technology turned on | News Channel 3-12

By Pete Muntean, CNN Washington (CNN) — The top US senator overseeing aviation says he will introduce a bill that “will close the regulatory loophole” that allowed an Army Black Hawk helicopter to operate with key flight tracking technology, called ADS-B out, turned off the night it collided with an airliner near Washington, DC. Sen. Ted Cruz, ranking chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, made the announcemen…