All 67 people on board the plane and the helicopter were killed in the crash. Hundreds of families ... Earlier, Sen. Ted Cruz, of Texas, said lawmakers were briefed by the Federal Aviation ...

“This was a training mission, so there was no compelling national security reason for ADS-B to be turned off,” Cruz said after a National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Admin ...

Ted Cruz told reporters Thursday following a closed door briefing by the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board. Cruz, a Texas Republican, chairs the Senate ...

Ted Cruz, R-Texas. The Texas Republican on Thursday ... In the aftermath of the crash, the FAA imposed significant restrictions on helicopter flights near Reagan National Airport in Arlington ...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Thursday that the Army Black Hawk helicopter involved in last month's midair collision with an American Airlines flight didn't have an advanced tracking system enabled.

But Cruz said that was not the case on Jan. 29, the night of the crash. “In this instance, this was a training mission, so there was no compelling national security reason for ADS-B to be turned ...

As chairman, Cruz has the power to hold hearings probing the causes of the crash and highlighting lessons to prevent similar accidents. Joseph Morton covers the intersection of business and ...

Cruz's comments came hours after Trump speculated ... As of Friday, it is believed that all 67 people involved in the crash of the American Airlines flight and Army Black Hawk helicopter died.

"We don't know right now." Cruz and other senators on the Senate Commerce Committee were briefed by the NTSB Thursday on the circumstances around the crash, some of which Cruz described on his ...

The crash around 9 p.m. threw one of the world’s most tightly controlled airspaces into chaos, 3 miles (5 kilometers) south of the White House and U.S. Capitol. Officials were probing the cause ...