Senator Ted Cruz, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, is introducing a new bill that would "close the regulatory loophole" that allows military aircraft to turn off key flight tracking ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Army helicopter that collided with an American Airlines plane killing 67 people last week had turned off an advanced surveillance system that has been hailed for making airspace ...

Senator Ted Cruz, the chairman of the committee with oversight of transportation, said there was no compelling reason for the technology not to have been in use when the helicopter collided with a ...

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WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The Army helicopter that collided with a passenger jet last week in Washington had its tracking technology turned off at the time of the crash, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz told ...