The US Army has finally handed a memo over to a Senate committee, relating to its use of ADS-B in the National Capital Region ...

The U.S. Army has turned over to the Senate a 2024 Augustmemo detailing why it routinely failed to use a safety system known ...

Whether you’re in your backyard or cheering at a game, you’ve probably looked up and seen a military aircraft flying through ...

A hard-won Senate confirmation was not enough to keep the aroma of scandal away from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for ...

midair collision of an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) The head of the ...

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said he learned that the Secret Service and U.S. Navy triggered a rash of collision alarms in planes around Reagan Airport on March 1 while testing anti-drone technology that used ...

January’s crash between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and a PSA Airlines regional jet killed 67 people. The high-volume traffic around the airport continues to be a concern, not only for ...

That technology — referred to as ADS-B Out, for Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast Out — was not operating in the Black Hawk helicopter at the time it collided with an American ...

The change came after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Commerce Committee chairman, said the Army Blackhawk helicopter that collided with the commercial jet had its ADS-B turned off. Homendy said the ...

The FAA already has pledged to use artificial intelligence to dig into the millions of reports it collects to see if there are similar safety risks in other cities with heavy helicopter traffic ...

The FAA has since permanently banned that particular helicopter route when planes are using that runway. Shortly before the collision, a controller got an alert saying the plane and Black Hawk ...