WASHINGTON: The Military helicopter that collided with a passenger jet final week in Washington had its monitoring know-how turned off on the time of the crash, US Senator Ted Cruz advised the New York Occasions.
The know-how permits air visitors controllers to higher monitor 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 know-how for the Black Hawk was turned off throughout the coaching mission, the New York Occasions reported on Thursday (Feb 6) evening.
When in use, the know-how, known as Automated Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast, or ADS-B, broadcasts an plane’s place, altitude and pace, stated the New York Occasions.
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 accordance with 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.
