Tag: Air Traffic Control

All aircraft flying near Ronald Reagan National Airport will now be required to broadcast their positions to air traffic controllers, ...

Increased federal spending in recent years has helped to improve U.S. ports, roads, parks, public transit and levees, according to ...

Airlines, airports and air traffic controllers prepare for chaos. But that doesn’t make responding to it any less complicated.The global ...

The Federal Aviation Administration will adopt two urgent recommendations issued by a federal safety board to reduce and reroute helicopter ...

The Trump administration is facing pressure to protect the Federal Aviation Administration from further layoffs after hundreds of workers were ...

The family of one of the 67 victims of a plane crash last month near Washington filed two legal claims ...

In many ways, the issues at Reagan National’s control tower are emblematic of the fraying safety net that protects air ...

For the Federal Aviation Administration, Jan. 29 was the beginning of one of the most challenging stretches it has faced ...

Just after 8:43 p.m. on Jan. 29, an air traffic controller at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, posed a ...

Flying helicopters near Ronald Reagan National Airport always carries some risk. But the conditions on the moonless night of Jan. ...

More than 90 percent of the country’s 313 air traffic control facilities operate below the Federal Aviation Administration’s recommended staffing ...

Before the deadly plane crash on Wednesday night near Ronald Reagan National Airport, there were at least 10 close calls ...

Airline pilots have warned of the potential dangers that helicopters posed in the Washington area before the fatal crash at ...

Late on Thursday, the most difficult day that Federal Aviation Administration employees had faced in decades, they received an email ...