After the Washington, D.C., plane crash, Trump said he previously set "extraordinary" standards for air traffic control ...

Democrats previously hit out at the president's federal hiring freeze for hindering the "number one safety issue" in aviation ...

Air traffic ... Many controllers do not realize what they are signing up for when they start training for the job, MacQueen said. "It's a mental grind, right? It just is. You don't get enough ...

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday night raised ... Trump questioned the tactics of the military helicopter and the air traffic controllers — both agencies that report to him as the president.

The Trump administration has defended its cuts at the Federal Aviation Administration by saying safety-critical employees ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed last ... what he called an “obsolete” computer system used by U.S. air traffic controllers, and he vowed to replace it. Trump said during an event ...

A few hundred Federal Aviation Administration workers have been fired less than three weeks after an American Airlines and ...

We count on pilots and air-traffic controllers to keep us safe in the ... Unfortunately, that happened. As President Donald Trump pointed out in the disaster’s aftermath, the Federal Aviation ...

Donald Trump has launched a bizarre tirade while labelling the head of air traffic control "a disaster" even though there has been no suggestion about the cause of the tragic crash so far.

The firings come as the FAA is already struggling to find enough air traffic controllers to man the nation's airports.

Social media was flooded with reactions to Donald Trump's executive order freezing the hiring of air traffic controllers. "Eight days ago Trump issued an executive order freezing the hiring of air ...