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凯特琳·伊莱克，哥伦比亚广播公司新闻华盛顿特区总部的政治记者。她曾供职于《华盛顿考察家报》和《国会山报》，并入选2022年美国国家新闻基金会保罗·米勒华盛顿报道奖学金项目。
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奥利维亚·里纳尔迪，白宫记者
奥利维亚·里纳尔迪是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的白宫记者，曾报道特朗普总统2024年总统竞选活动，此前曾担任《诺拉·奥唐奈CBS晚间新闻》副制片人以及《面向全国》节目广播助理。她的工作地点位于华盛顿特区。
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华盛顿讯 —— 众议院于周二通过了自身版本的航空安全法案。此前，众议院曾否决了参议院以全票通过的另一项法案，此举激怒了罗纳德·里根华盛顿国家机场附近致命空难遇难者家属。
众议院以396票赞成、10票反对的结果通过了《ALERT法案》，该法案旨在应对2025年1月美国航空公司客机与陆军黑鹰直升机相撞的事故，此次事故造成两架飞机上全部67人遇难。
《ALERT法案》要求所有在繁忙机场附近飞行的航空器，包括军用飞机，安装能够接收周边其他飞机位置数据的安全设备。目前大多数飞机已配备广播自身位置的ADS-B Out技术，但未配备被称为ADS-B In的防撞技术。
根据美国国家运输安全委员会以及遇难者家属的说法，如果美国航空5342号班机配备了ADS-B In技术，本可以避免这场致命事故。这项两党法案还要求军用飞机在2031年前安装防撞技术，战斗机、轰炸机、无人机及其他特种任务飞机除外。
众议院共和党领导层快速推进了该法案，法案通过需要获得三分之二议员的支持。参议院版本的《ROTOR法案》于2月因五角大楼撤回支持而以一票之差未能通过。
五角大楼最初于去年12月在参议院通过该法案后表示支持《ROTOR法案》。但就在众议院就该法案进行表决的几天前，国防部表示，该法案的生效“将造成重大未决预算负担和作战安全风险，影响国防活动”。
众议院法案还涉及直升机航线安全和间隔要求，美国国家运输安全委员会认定这是2025年空难的可能原因。该法案还旨在改善空中交通管制培训和流程。
今年2月，美国国家运输安全委员会表示，《ALERT法案》未能满足事故后提出的50项建议，包括为所有航空器配备能够接收其他飞机更精确位置信息的技术。众议院议员对该法案进行了修正，美国国家运输安全委员会表示，修正后的法案将要求美国运输部、国防部和联邦航空管理局“采取行动，完成后将落实我们的建议”。
但遇难者家属周二在一份声明中表示，《ALERT法案》在解决导致空难的问题上仍不够深入。
“《ALERT法案》所依赖的防撞技术尚未成熟，可能需要数年时间才能广泛应用，”他们说，“如果没有可直接安装的技术，业界将提出大量豁免申请，国会将立即面临推迟合规而非强制合规的压力。”
参议院运输委员会领导层——得克萨斯州共和党参议员特德·克鲁兹和华盛顿州民主党参议员玛丽亚·坎特维尔——于3月发表两党声明称，《ALERT法案》未明确要求安装ADS-B技术，无法防止致命空中相撞事故。
克鲁兹周二辩称，《ROTOR法案》仍是更好的选择，并呼吁解决这一“重大问题”。
“国会不应推进一项既不能改善航空安全，也无法填补包括军方在内的运营商在拥挤空域‘盲目飞行’的漏洞的法案，”他说。
House passes aviation safety bill in response to deadly midair collision near D.C.
2026-04-14 8:03 PM EDT / CBS News
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Caitlin Yilek,
Caitlin Yilek Politics Reporter
Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship with the National Press Foundation.
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Olivia Rinaldi White House reporter
Olivia Rinaldi is a White House reporter at CBS News. She covered President Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign and was previously an associate producer for “CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell” and a broadcast associate for “Face the Nation.” She is based in Washington, D.C.
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Washington — The House on Tuesday passed its version of an aviation safety bill, months after it rejected separate legislation that cleared the Senate with unanimous support and angered families of the victims of a deadly midair crash near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
In a 396 to 10 vote, the House approved the ALERT Act, which came in response to the January 2025 collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army Black Hawk that killed all 67 people aboard both aircraft.
The ALERT Act would require all aircraft, including military planes, that fly near busy airports to install safety instruments that can receive data about the locations of other aircraft in the vicinity. Most planes already have technology that broadcasts their locations, called ADS-B Out, but are not equipped with collision-avoidance technology referred to as ADS-B In.
If American Airlines 5342 was equipped with ADS-B In, it could have prevented the fatal accident, according to the National Transportation Safety Board and victims’ families. The bipartisan bill would also require military aircraft to install collision-prevention technologies by 2031, with exceptions for fighters, bombers, drones and other special mission aircraft.
House GOP leaders fast-tracked the bill, which required support from two-thirds of members for passage. The Senate version, known as the ROTOR Act, failed by one vote in February after the Pentagon reversed its support for the legislation.
The Pentagon originally endorsed the ROTOR Act in December after the Senate passed the legislation. But just days before the House took it up, the department said its enactment “would create significant unresolved budgetary burdens and operational security risks affecting national defense activities.”
The House bill also addresses helicopter route safety and separation requirements, which the NTSB determined to be the probable cause of the 2025 collision. The legislation also seeks to improve air traffic control training and processes.
In February, the NTSB said the ALERT Act fell short of addressing its 50 recommendations after the crash, including equipping all aircraft with the technology to receive more precise information about the locations of other aircraft. House lawmakers amended the bill, which the NTSB said would require the Department of Transportation, Department of Defense and FAA “to take actions that, when completed, would address our recommendations.”
But victims’ families said in a statement Tuesday that the ALERT Act still does not go far enough in addressing issues that caused the crash.
“The collision prevention technologies ALERT relies upon are not market ready and could take years to become widely available,” they said. “Without installation-ready technology, broad waiver requests from industry will follow, and Congress will face immediate pressure to delay compliance rather than enforce it.”
The leaders of the Senate Transportation Committee — Sens. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, and Maria Cantwell, a Washington Democrat — released a bipartisan statement in March saying the ALERT Act would fail to prevent deadly midair collisions by not having a clear requirement for the implementation of the ADS-B technology.
Cruz argued Tuesday that the ROTOR Act is still the better option and called for the “significant issue” to be addressed.
“Congress should not advance a bill that neither improves aviation safety nor closes the loopholes that have allowed operators, including the military, to fly blind in congested airspace,” he said.
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