January's fatal mid-air collision at Reagan National Airport was a wake-up call to the overextended nature of air traffic ...

One air traffic controller was doing work normally assigned to two people in the tower at Reagan National ... who was flying to Indiana to visit family. She spent much of the long night thinking ...

Last month, the tower was nearly 20 percent below its target staffing level, with 23 fully certified controllers instead of 28, according to data from the union representing controllers that was ...

Families of victims of the deadliest U.S. air disaster in nearly 25 years visited the crash site just outside Washington, D ...

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“Tower, did you see that?” an unidentified aircraft asked air traffic control late Wednesday ... who was flying to Indiana to visit family. She spent much of the long night thinking about ...

They also said they plan to refine the tower data, which can be less reliable. “That’s what our job is, to figure that out,” NTSB member Todd Inman said. The air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan ...

Chronic understaffing at air traffic control towers is nothing new ... Those calling from outside the U.S. can visit news.aa.com for additional phone numbers. Family members in Canada, Puerto ...

He is due to visit the FAA command center and recovery ... jet coming in for a landing at the airport alerted the air traffic control tower that it had to make a second approach.

A Black Hawk military helicopter and an American Airlines plane collided near an airport in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.