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

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 ...

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

Before that, many will remember a deadly wreck in 2006 at Bluegrass Airport in Lexington when a Comair aircraft left from the wrong runway ... a shortage of air traffic controllers.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Air traffic controllers in the US have been warning ... on-board collision-avoidance systems on airliners as well as runway safety technology at the busiest airports. The DC disaster has also ...

Some in the aviation industry are providing insight into what may have happened it Wednesday's aircraft crash in Washington D.C.