Questions had been raised about how the collision - which killed all 67 people involved - occurred, given pilots follow strict protocol about the altitudes they can safely reach.

Pilots who agree initiate a swooping turn that on final approach brings them north west and low across the river — the path ...

Sure, pilots could have used SOS, but the consonants could have easily been mistaken for some other similarly sounding ...

The basic problem, which reformers have been trying to remedy since the Clinton administration, is that the system is operated by a cumbersome federal bureaucracy—the same bureaucracy that’s also ...

The staffing numbers from 2023, the most recent year made available by the Federal Aviation Administration, show the airport ...

But knowing a big crash like this was coming—seeing all the patched-up holes in the aviation system that might have made it ...

For 25 years, I worked in civilian aerospace at Rolls Royce and Airbus. Then, I taught college students to dispassionately ...

A common misconception is that towered airports are safer than nontowered airports, because ATC is "watching out" for the ...

Controllers must meet strict eligibility requirements and complete years of training before taking charge of airspace.

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 horrific air crash in Washington, D.C. is focusing attention on the shortage of air-traffic controllers. The problem with the system, however, goes far deeper.

Only 28 facilities are staffed properly . The New York Times reported last week that 285 of the country’s 313 ATC facilities ...