The Senate Commerce Committee may subpoena the Army for a report that explains why it repeatedly failed to utilize a safety system called ADS-B on helicopter flights near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, its chair, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), said on April 2.
When an Army Black Hawk helicopter on a routine training mission collided midair with an American Airlines regional jet descending for a landing on Jan. 29, killing 67 people, it did not have that system operating.
The Committee said on Monday that it was “completely unacceptable” for the army to refuse to release the memo, titled “ADS-B Out of Operations in the National Airspace,” after Cruz sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth requesting that he order the army to do so....
