The agency is short about 3,000 air traffic controllers, and even an ambitious hiring surge would only make a dent in coming ...

The Federal Aviation Administration is hiring New Yorkers for positions at its air traffic control facilities. The average ...

According to the NATCA, air traffic controllers make sure that flights are always smooth, navigating two million aviation ...

Air traffic control managers told the National Transportation Safety Board that F.A.A. leaders rebuffed efforts over the ...

The National Transportation Safety Board will question witnesses Thursday about air traffic control training, a key part of ...

The NTSB concluded three days of investigative hearings into the collision between an Army helicopter and a passenger plane ...

The F.A.A. has since been training on-call specialists to be snappier about administering alcohol and drug tests after a ...

During the second day of the NTSB hearing for the Washington, D.C., plane crash, the U.S. Army defended its pilots while the ...

According to the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, the FAA is almost 4,000 controllers short of staffing the ...

Air traffic controller failed to notify commercial plane crew about approaching Army helicopter before Washington D.C.

But all of them are reminders that America’s air traffic control system is in desperate need of reform. That’s only part of the problem. Because the FAA is an arm of the government, its operations, ...

It needs to be addressed and we didn’t address it," said Bryan Lehman, an air traffic manager at a large control facility in ...