As at January, 285 facilities – which include traffic control towers and other locations – were below staffing thresholds set by the FAA and the union. At 73 of those facilities, staffing is ...

The air traffic control tower at Reagan Washington National Airport, where the American Airlines plane was headed, was not fully staffed, with one traffic controller handling the jobs of two people.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento Executive Airport is facing uncertainty in the staffing of its air traffic control tower. Sacramento County owns the airport and land it sits on, but the Federal ...

Only one air traffic control worker was managing the helicopters and some planes from the Reagan National Airport tower at the time of the collision, a job normally done by two people, two sources ...

When controllers in training are included, that rose to about 79%. Some traffic control towers at major airports around the country – including Philadelphia, Orlando, Austin, Albuquerque and ...

A day after the United States witnessed its deadliest aviation disaster in over two decades, a preliminary report from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) suggests the Reagan National Airport ...

Some aviation experts are eagerly anticipating information on what happened in the air traffic control tower during the Washington, D.C. plane crash. They say all of those pieces are important for ...

An internal operational report shows there were no staffing concerns inside the control tower. The military is reviewing where and when the military does Black Hawk training.

Good morning and welcome to the 43rd day of January. Only 19 days left in the month. Rainy, gusty and some fog with a high of 53 today and a low of 41 tonight. The Wizards are at Minnesota Saturday, ...