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 ...

WASHINGTON – Airline pilots flying into Washington, D.C., have reported nearly a dozen near misses that were scarily similar ...

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 ...

Some in the aviation industry are providing insight into what may have happened it Wednesday's aircraft crash in Washington D ...

Less than 10% of the nation's airport terminal towers have enough air traffic controllers to meet a set of standards set by a ...

As the nation eagerly waits for the results of the investigation into two recent plane crashes, a pilot in southern Colorado is shedding light on how pilots work to avoid collisions in the air.

Prior to this week's fatal airplane crash in Washington, the US air traffic control (ATC) system was regarded as an ...