Apple’s iPhone has long included a hidden flight-tracking tool that most users never discover. When someone texts a flight ...

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Senator Ted Cruz, the chairman of the committee with oversight of transportation, said there was no compelling reason for the technology not to have been in use when the helicopter collided with a ...

Senator Ted Cruz, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, is introducing a new bill that would "close the regulatory loophole" that allows military aircraft to turn off key flight tracking ...

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WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The Army helicopter that collided with a passenger jet last week in Washington had its tracking technology turned off at the time of the crash, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz told ...

WASHINGTON — Technology that would have allowed air traffic controllers to better track the movement of an Army helicopter before it collided with a passenger jet over the Potomac River last week was ...