Victims are being named after an American Airlines flight crashed with a Black Hawk by Reagan National Airport, leaving no ...

The FAA has long struggled with a shortage of air traffic controllers. Jonathan Koziol, chief of staff for Army aviation, said the helicopter crew was “very experienced” and familiar with the ...

Trump said Thursday that air traffic controllers must be “geniuses ... the deterioration of federal hiring standards at the Federal Aviation Administration and the president wants to increase ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the COVID-19 pandemic caused air traffic controller recruitment to "plummet" for two ...

At his first news conference since the aircraft collision over the Potomac River, President Donald Trump implied Thursday ...

"We currently have 10,800 air traffic controllers," Curtiss said. "The number that we need to do the best job possible is 14,335." The NBC10 Boston Investigators' analysis of FAA data found that ...

The new secretary of transportation, Sean Duffy, appeared to walk back an enticement to retire, saying F.A.A. safety workers ...

Of the tens of thousands of people who apply to become air traffic controllers each year, only a small percentage actually get certified. The FAA in 2023, for example, said that by August of that ...

Win McNamee/Getty Images FAA officials said reversing the decades-long decline of air traffic controllers is a top priority. "We continue to hire and onboard new controllers. Their work is ...