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Ted Cruz: “The ROTOR act is designed to mandate that all aircraft in…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 15:30

But if you look at aviation safety, a second big victory that we just had on aviation safety happened this week, which is in response to what happened there. I began drafting legislation that's called the ROTOR Act. Yeah. And The ROTOR act is designed to mandate that all aircraft in the sky use what's called ADS B technology. ADS B out and ADS B in. And that is advanced technology to help the other planes in the sky and the other aircraft see each other and to help the air traffic controllers have the information on the precise location in real time. (15:30–15:39)

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Asserts that the ROTOR Act mandates the use of ADS B technology for all aircraft.

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