An air traffic controller at Reagan National Airport reportedly left early on Wednesday before the deadly collision between ...

The US president says the army Black Hawk involved in Wednesday's collision was above the 200ft altitude limit for ...

The US air traffic control system has been stretched nearly to its breaking point by a decades-long staffing shortage. It’s causing problems not just for the air traffic controllers that remain but ...

The National Transportation Safety Board has interviewed the air-traffic controller who was working at the time of the midair ...

YOU LIVE. GUYS, BACK TO YOU. ALL RIGHT. SUMMER. THANK YOU. AND OUR TEAM COVERAGE CONTINUES NOW WITH THE STRESS OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS THAT THEY’RE UNDER. WESH 2’S PAMELA COMME IS JOINING ...

THEY’VE NEVER REALLY HAD ENOUGH CONTROLLERS. IT WAS DURING THAT STRIKE FORMER PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN FIRED 11,000 AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS, AND THEY STILL DON’T HAVE ENOUGH WORKERS.

Some major US airports had less than 60% of their staffing targets filled with fully certified controllers in recent years, ...

Trump’s rule by self-inflicted chaos trickled down to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the Department of Transportation, where even air traffic controllers and airport control towers ...

Even if the controllers can’t leave with extra months of pay by giving notice, there is a serious attrition problem among air traffic controllers feeding the shortage. FAA rules require all ...