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Ted Cruz: “Military aircraft were routinely ignoring rules that…”

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Sen. Ted Cruz Delivers Remarks on DCA Midair Collision Investigation

Published | Video Starts at 03:09

Instead, the CRJ's pilots didn't see the helicopter until a split second before impact. While the helicopter crew, it appears, never saw the crj. The NTSB review revealed another major safety loophole. Military aircraft were routinely ignoring rules that required aircraft flying in busy airspace to transmit ADS B signals. Although planes don't share locations with each other via ADS B, they must broadcast such information to air traffic control. (03:09–03:19)

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Asserts that military aircraft routinely ignored rules to transmit ADS B signals in busy airspace.

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