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According to the NATCA, air traffic controllers make sure that flights are always smooth, navigating two million aviation ...
Chief Transportation Correspondent and Pilot MayCay Beeler explains what's called an "air traffic control washout" amid a ...
A national shortage of air traffic controllers is putting pressure on flight safety and operations, and Ohio is stepping up ...
The National Transportation Safety Board will question witnesses Thursday about air traffic control training, a key part of ...
The FAA says the U.S. needs 3,000 more air traffic controllers to meet staffing shortages. SIU researchers say addressing the ...
Air traffic controller failed to notify commercial plane crew about approaching Army helicopter before Washington D.C.
Air traffic control managers told the National Transportation Safety Board that F.A.A. leaders rebuffed efforts over the ...
The F.A.A. has since been training on-call specialists to be snappier about administering alcohol and drug tests after a ...
A federal watchdog is launching an audit into why a dozen air traffic controllers were moved from New York to Philadelphia ...
But all of them are reminders that America’s air traffic control system is in desperate need of reform. That’s only part of the problem. Because the FAA is an arm of the government, its operations, ...
An air traffic controller in Bogota, Colombia, was suspended after allowing his teenage son to interact with aircraft for ...
An air traffic controller who works the airspace around Newark, N.J. talks about what it was like to lose radar and communication systems during a shift, and how the situation got to be so bad.