Shocking new reports are speaking about crucial tracking technology being turned off inside an Army helicopter after it collided with a passenger jet.

Sources from local media outlets shared more about the matter, including how it was switched off even though the vehicle was undergoing a training mission routine.

Experts shared how that was a bizarre finding as the only situation when that occurs is if there’s a high risk and therefore for security purposes, it’s done.

In this case, it should not have been like that. The mission was to renew a 28-year-old’s yearly certification after it rammed into an American Airlines flight as it descended into the Reagan National Airport before the hours of 9 pm.

When the helicopter did go down, the Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast was disabled and that’s a system designed to share the plane’s position, altitude, and speed.

This explained why it couldn’t be detected as per Senator Ted Cruz who spoke more on the matter to the New York Times on Thursday.

The technology also makes use of a display that shows pilots the exact location of other planes in the sky and on the runway. It similarly allows the air traffic controllers to not just rely on radar tracking, which could have a delay of a few seconds.