If we learned anything from the DCA crash, it's that you can't have a safe airspace when operators are following different sets of rules. That's why our committee authored and passed the bipartisan ROTOR Act. The ROTOR act, which passed the Senate unanimously in December, rescinds that new defense bill loophole and it enacts the central NTSB recommendation of this investigation. The ROTOR act requires all aircraft in congested airspace to broadcast their location to each other via ADS B. (04:22–04:36)
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Asserts that the ROTOR Act rescinds the Defense bill loophole and enacts an NTSB recommendation.
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