Air traffic controllers are exempt from a buyout offer President Trump’s administration introduced last week to nearly 2 ...
The NTSB says when the Jan. 29 collision between a passenger plane and helicopter occurred, the air traffic control tower had ...
Issues with air traffic control staffing are under the spotlight following the fatal mid-air collision between an American ...
US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said there was a "consolidation of air traffic controllers an hour before it was ...
The moments before and after a crash between an American Airlines passenger jet and a military helicopter are detailed in air ...
A recording obtained by this news organization contains chatter between airport tower employees and crew on the small plane ...
Donald Trump claimed, without citing evidence, that DEI initiatives at the FAA were partly to blame for the tragic plane and ...
A single controller was left to handle the air traffic of planes and helicopters flying over the airspace when two people ...
According to the audio, the air traffic controllers reacted to the crash before starting to redirect other air traffic in the area. One person described the collision as being in the middle of the ...
for months. The board will examine the role played by air traffic controllers in the crash, officials said in a briefing Thursday. Within hours the crash had also spurred a political fight ...
The responsibility of handling air traffic control for helicopters and incoming planes at Reagan National Airport were combined on Wednesday night ahead of a deadly collision, a report said.
A source tells NBC News that, according to a preliminary FAA report, a single air traffic controller was handling both planes and helicopters when the crash occurred. Normally at the D.C. tower at ...