Issues with air traffic control staffing are under the spotlight following the fatal mid-air collision between an American ...
The public should know which airports have the worst systems. Yet the Government Accountability Office, which did the ...
An American Airlines plane with 64 people on board collided with an Army helicopter over Washington, D.C., and crashed into ...
Authorities have switched to a recovery mission in the Potomac River following a midair collision between an American Eagle ...
An American Airlines plane carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter outside ...
The New York Times first reported those air traffic control staffing numbers. The Times reported that staffing at the tower was "not normal ... the Virginia and D.C. area.
Less than 10% of the nation's airport terminal ... C., that killed 67 people. Only one air traffic control worker was managing the helicopters and some planes from the Reagan National Airport ...
D.C. has brought new scrutiny to air traffic control staffing levels nationwide, as the FAA examines tower staffing. "Air traffic controllers are chronically and catastrophically understaffed ...