WASHINGTON: The Military helicopter that collided with a passenger jet final week in Washington had its monitoring expertise turned off on the time of the crash, US Senator Ted Cruz advised the New York Instances.
The expertise permits air visitors controllers to raised observe the motion of an plane.
Republican Senator Cruz is a member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, which acquired a closed-door briefing on the crash with the US Federal Aviation Administration and the Nationwide Transportation Security Board.
Cruz expressed concern that monitoring expertise for the Black Hawk was turned off in the course of the coaching mission, the New York Instances reported on Thursday (Feb 6) night time.
When in use, the expertise, known as Computerized Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast, or ADS-B, broadcasts an plane’s place, altitude and pace, stated the New York Instances.
It permits air visitors controllers to not rely solely on radar monitoring, which may have a delay of some seconds and therefore provides an additional security layer, in response to the newspaper.
The lethal collision over the Potomac River in Washington between the helicopter and an American Airways regional jet killed 67 people last week. It was the deadliest US air catastrophe in additional than 20 years.
