WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - The National

Transportation Safety Board said on Thursday a proposed U.S.

House of Representatives aviation safety bill does not fully

address safety recommendations it issued after a 2025 mid-air

collision killed 67 people near Washington.

The NTSB said the House's ALERT Act fails to address its

recommendation to require the aircraft tracking technology known

as ADS-B.

The NTSB said ADS-B would have prevented the 2025 collision

of an American Airlines ( AAL ) regional jet and an Army Black

Hawk helicopter in the crowded airspace near the nation's

capital.

House Transportation Committee Chair Sam Graves said on

Wednesday that his panel would take up the ALERT Act as soon as

next week. The bill aims to address all 50 recommendations made

by the NTSB after the crash, but would not mandate ADS-B use.

"We cannot support the ALERT Act in its current form as it

is not fully responsive to the NTSB's recommendations," the NTSB

board members said in a joint letter.

The House voted 264-133 on Tuesday in favor of the ROTOR Act,

which the Senate passed unanimously in December. But under

fast-track rules designed to expedite legislation, the bill

needed a two-thirds majority to pass and it fell one vote short.

The ROTOR Act would require the military to use ADS-B,

advanced surveillance technology that transmits an aircraft's

location, on routine training flights but not on sensitive

military missions.

"How many more people need to die for us to decide that

action needs to be taken?" NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy told

reporters this week, saying it was "despicable" the ROTOR Act

failed.

The NTSB said ADS-B could have alerted the passenger plane

pilot 59 seconds before the collision and the helicopter crew 48

seconds before.

In December, the Pentagon said it supported the ROTOR Act

legislation, but on Monday it said the bill could create

"significant unresolved budgetary burdens and operational

security risks affecting national defense activities."

The Pentagon has not commented on the ALERT Act. House Armed

Services Committee Chair Mike Rogers, who is an author of the

ALERT Act, said the bill would increase coordination between the

military and the FAA on aircraft safety matters and require

enhanced training for military pilots operating in congested

airspace.