The air traffic controllers union responded Friday to claims by President Trump this week that diversity programs contributed ...

The union for air traffic controllers recommended to its members that they not accept Tuesday’s offer, because the FAA had ...

Airline pilots flying into Washington, D.C., have reported nearly a dozen near misses that were scarily similar to this week’s midair collision that killed 67 people.

Investigators have recovered the black boxes from both aircraft involved in the deadly midair collision near Washington, D.C., and are working to determine the cause.

While some reports suggest the helicopter pilot may have mistaken another plane for the American Airlines jet, Katz believes it was more likely human error.

Washington’s National Airport has one of the most congested airspaces in the United States, with as many as 800 landings and ...

President Donald Trump's remarks this week blaming diversity recruitment at the FAA as a potential reason for the plane crash ...

A timeline of the tragic collision between a commercial plane and a Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River, with ...

President Trump prematurely blamed the air traffic controllers for the crash before rolling his statements back.

The FAA has struggled for decades to keep its towers adequately staffed. Locally, our airports are understaffed, with air traffic controllers who could be fatigued and stressed.

As of data released in fall of 2024, the FAA said they had more than 14,000 air traffic controllers. Most controllers average ...

Less than 10% of the nation's airport terminal towers have enough air traffic controllers to meet a set of standards set by a working group that included the FAA and the controllers' union.