In the building of its new air traffic control tower, a 20-foot tall cab was placed on top of its 120-foot tall base. This ...
Since the election, and again after the tragic airplane-helicopter accident in Washington last week, calls have been renewed ...
Using radio traffic, flight data and leaked footage of an air traffic control radar screen, we examine what was happening in the moments before the midair collision near Reagan National Airport that ...
When Donald Trump was running for president, he made it clear that one of his priorities was to slash the size of government.
The most recent FAA data show that CVG’s control tower exceeded the agency’s staffing target, but union officials say it's ...
The Army pilots were juggling dark skies, low altitude, a busy airspace and a cockpit without certain traffic detectors ...
If you don’t know what ASE is, it’s because you, like most people, don’t fly much. If you do know, then air safety in and out of Sardy Field (ASE, ...
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Families of victims of the deadliest U.S. air disaster in a nearly in 25 years visited the crash site Sunday just outside Washington, D.C.
Data from the jet’s flight recorder showed its altitude as 325 feet (99 meters), plus or minus 25 feet (7.6 meters), when the crash happened Wednesday night, National Transportation Safety Board ...
“Specifically, according to the FAA officials, aging systems have been difficult to maintain due to the unavailability of parts and retirement of technicians with expertise in maintaining the aging ...
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Recovery crews and divers searched the Potomac River for remains and cleared wreckage Saturday from the midair collision of a passenger jet and Army helicopter that killed 67 ...
Sources say air traffic control offices have been in a state of Trumpian despair since he took over — and that was before the plane crash near D.C.