ARLINGTON, VA (AP) – Another revelation following the crash of a helicopter into a jet approaching Reagan National in February, this one that a hotline military and air traffic control has not worked in over three years. Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz has asked whether this hotline not working may have contributed to another near miss shortly after the U.S. Army resumed flying helicopters in the area for the first time since January’s deadly midair collision. The Federal Aviation Administration official in charge of air traffic controllers confirmed the agency didn’t even know the hotline hadn’t been working since March 2022 until after the latest near miss. He said civilian controllers still have other means of communicating with their military counterparts, but the FAA insists the hotline be fixed before Army helicopter flights resume in Washington.