The collision between a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and a passenger aircraft at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 29 spurred Congress and the Trump administration to act on making the airways safer, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told Newsmax on Wednesday.

Cruz on Tuesday, the six-month anniversary of the accident that claimed 67 lives, introduced the Rotorcraft Operations Transparency and Oversight Reform Act, which establishes new requirements for virtually all aircraft and helicopters to use technology that allows aircraft to accurately communicate their location with greater precision than traditional radar.

“The ROTOR Act is directly derived from what happened on that accident six months ago,” Cruz told “The Record With Greta Van Susteren.” 

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