The National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) is reviewing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and its ...
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the plan after the FAA laid off roughly 400 probationary employees.
Firings affected several hundred workers responsible for maintaining FAA radar, landing systems and navigational aids.
A tragic midair collision involving American Airlines Flight 5342 and an Army helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport ...
On his social media platform, Elon Musk posted, ‘SpaceX engineers will help make air travel safer,’ after job cuts at the FAA ...
Federal officials have been raising concerns about an overtaxed and understaffed air traffic control system for years, especially after a series of close calls between planes at U.S. airports.
In fact, researchers at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Utah believe it can be done using an ad-hoc air traffic control setup for drones at a cost of just a few hundred dollars. The team's Local ...
Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and John Hoeven (R-N.D.) urged the agency to address the “urgent need” of air traffic controllers amid staffing shortages, citing last month’s midair collision at ...
“Airservices Australia has implemented a ground delay program at Sydney Airport this afternoon due to a shortage of air traffic controllers, which is impacting all airlines,” a Virgin ...
We count on pilots and air-traffic controllers to keep us safe in the skies — but that trust is betrayed when the government inserts irrelevant and discriminatory considerations into its hiring ...
Black Hawk pilots may not have heard a critical directive from air traffic control to fly behind the American Airlines plane in the seconds before it collided with the jet, and may have had “bad ...
(Mark Schiefelbein/AP) A U.S. Army Black Hawk crew may not have heard critical air traffic control messages instructing it to fly behind the commercial regional jet it ultimately collided with ...