As a person with extreme flight anxiety, the recent news has made me more afraid than ever to get on a plane. I spoke to ...

More than 80 commercial planes have crashed in the U.S. since 1970.

The first officer had nearly two years with the airline. About 8:43 p.m. Wednesday, an air traffic controller at Reagan National contacted the commercial jet. “Can you take Runway 33?” ...

The union for air traffic controllers recommended to its members that they not accept Tuesday’s offer, because the FAA had not decided which positions would be included in the resignation plan.

The near misses often took place at or near major airports and were often the result of errors by pilots or air traffic controllers ... about 300 feet below the airplane and climbing slowly.

A medical transport jet carrying a child patient, her mother and four others slammed into a Philadelphia neighborhood and exploded in flames. The child had been treated in Philadelphia for a ...

Less than 10% of the nation's airport terminal towers have enough air traffic controllers to meet a set of standards set by a working group that included the Federal Aviation Administration and ...

Learn how to get started. Prior to this week's fatal airplane crash in Washington, the US air traffic control (ATC) system was regarded as an understaffed operation beset with old and sometimes ...

Todd Inman said investigators will look closely at the air traffic controllers who where working ... ensuring the safety of airplane and helicopter traffic,” he wrote. Duffy said the decision ...

Just a day before a deadly midair collision at Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C., employees at the Federal Aviation Administration were sent an offer to resign with eight months’ pay.