Senate panel to study countermeasures for commercial jets, Shelby says

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), the incoming chairman of the Senate Appropriations transportation subcommittee, plans to explore whether countermeasures used on military aircraft should be installed on commercial aircraft to protect them from surface-to-air missiles (SAMs). "That is one of the issues...

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