The U.S. Senate unanimously passed legislation Wednesday to toughen military helicopter safety rules and rescind a provision in the annual defense bill that critics said would have weakened aviation safety.

The Huey’s designated successor, the MH-139A Grey Wolf, has suffered from delays and cost overruns and is not yet prepared to replace it.

An Idaho Falls man died in a helicopter crash Friday in Oklahoma. Emanuele Tsikoudakis, 56, was piloting the helicopter when it crashed nose-first into the ground near County Road East 550 and County Road 4355 in Mayes County,

The U.S. Justice Department said late on Wednesday the federal government was liable in the fatal January 29 collision of an Army Black Hawk helicopter and American Airlines regional jet that killed 67 people near Reagan Washington National Airport.

Some residents in Newport, Ore., believed that the Trump administration had removed its Coast Guard rescue helicopter to make way for an immigration detention site.

“My hobby is jet engines,” Dustin Brice explained to me over the phone. “I was sitting in the garage one day, and there’s a Fast and Furious movie with a car that’s kind of doing the same thing. It has a small jet engine in the back, and it’s providing electrical power to a device they have on the car. And I was like, ‘Man, that’s super cool.’

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Two occupants of the aircraft were unharmed. The suspect will face a federal felony charge for destruction of aircraft or aircraft facilities.