The FAA basically decided the students were too white and the schools too elite, so in 2013 knocked them off the preferred hiring list,” claimed lawyer Michael Pearson.

As a person with extreme flight anxiety, the recent news has made me more afraid than ever to get on a plane. I spoke to ...

There are simply not enough air traffic controllers to keep aircraft a safe distance from one another. The cause of the crash between an American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, on final ...

Black Hawk pilots may not have heard a critical directive from air traffic control to fly behind the American Airlines plane ...

FAA and union officials would not address whether Southern California airport towers are fully staffed, but the shortage has ...

Some major US airports had less than 60% of their staffing targets filled with fully certified controllers in recent years, ...

The basic problem, which reformers have been trying to remedy since the Clinton administration, is that the system is ...

DC flight collision sheds light on air traffic controller shortage in US; Local aviators weigh in As the investigation into ...

As long as everybody's on the same page, that helps align with the safety of flight." Ronald Reagan National Airport has 25 fully certified air traffic controllers and three more in training.

President Trump says he thinks a more modern air traffic control computer system could have prevented last week’s deadly ...

Analysis of black box shows ‘conflicting information’ and suggests cockpit may not have seen accurate altitude information ...