Air traffic controller staffing has faced renewed attention after a January plane crash in Washington, D.C. Chicago has not ...

During Trump’s first term, the FAA began a program to hire air traffic controllers with the conditions that Trump decried.

Following last week‘s air crash in Washington, the FAA is receiving extra scrutiny. The real problem with the FAA, however, ...

By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs Video by Jamie Leventhal As American Airlines Flight 5342 approached a runway at Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night, an air traffic controller reached out to an ...

But one thing has been clear for decades: America’s air-traffic control system ... It was a foggy morning, and the controller couldn’t see that a Southwest airliner was on the same runway waiting to ...

On Monday, a million-dollar private jet crashed into another plane on the runway at Scottsdale ... who is representing would-be air traffic controllers who claim they were unfairly overlooked ...

The air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington ... men’s basketball team was ordered to stop taxiing along the runway at LAX as it moved toward a Delta Air Lines flight that was ...

But one thing has been clear for decades: America’s air-traffic control ... and the controller couldn’t see that a Southwest airliner was on the same runway waiting to take off.

He cautioned that air traffic control interviews and recordings from ... "We have a main north-south runway and two crosswind runways. The two crosswind runways if aircraft were to take off ...

Some of the reports warned that the flight space was "an accident waiting to happen" with others describing scenarios eerily ...

As recently as 2023, Austin was the site of a near collision between two planes and is one of the most understaffed air ...

Our air traffic controllers are operating with about half ... gave the go-ahead for the Southwest flight to depart from runway 18L while also instructing the FedEx plane to continue its landing ...