Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) debuted a bill on July 29 that would make changes to the way the Pentagon uses helicopters around busy airports, as well as prevent the Army from disengaging a critical location-transmitting technology that was inactive on the Black Hawk helicopter involved in January’s deadly midair collision near Washington.
Cruz unveiled the new legislation at a press conference one day before the beginning of a three-day National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) fact-finding hearing into the midair collision between a commercial airplane and an Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Jan. 29.
