[Trending News] US helicopter tracker who hit plane was off

Cruz declared himself concerned about the dismissal of the ADS-B. According to the senator, the helicopter was also equipped with a transponder – a device that transmits its location -but the ADS-B It is considered a superior and more reliable technology.

Military aircraft can disable technology. According to the NYT, during “government continuity” missions, military planes and helicopters can turn off ADS-B to prevent anyone from tracking where government officers are being taken.

Council still needs to collect other evidence of the military aircraft. At the meeting, the entity responsible for investigating air accidents in the USA, updated parliamentarians about the progress of the work, and said it still needs more information that will be collected from the wreckage of the helicopter – which are still in the river and should be removed in the next week.

Many questions are still unanswered, scored senators. According to the American newspaper, the committee members did not give much information after the meeting, but it is already known that the military vector was doing a training mission for one of the pilots to receive his annual aircraft certificate.

Preliminary investigations indicated that pilots would be wearing night vision glasses at the time of the accident. Jennifer Homendy, president of NTSB, reported that if the pilots were flying without the glasses, they could declare themselves “without help,” but there's no such thing on the cabin's voice recorder data. More analyzes are necessary to reach a definitive conclusion about the glasses, she said.