Senators demand increased air traffic control funding after fatal DC-area collision
For the sake of America’s traveling public, we can and must do better. At a minimum, we must commit to doing all we can to ...
Senators call for increased air traffic control funding
Two senators are calling on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to work with Congress to increase its funding and ...
The Digital Universe5d
Air traffic control for drones: BYU engineers introduce low-cost UAV detection technology
With the exponential rise in drone activity, safely managing low-flying airspace has become a major issue. Using a network of ...
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In the wake of Potomac air crash, a local aviation expert offers insight into the air traffic controller profession [column]
As a contractor, I went back to work at an FAA facility (the Harrisburg International Airport air traffic control tower in Middletown), where I provided training to both new recruits and fully ...
Washington Examiner7d
Elon Musk ethics outcry skyrockets with offer to ‘plug into’ FAA
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), the ranking member of the Commerce Committee sent a letter to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy asking him to bar Musk from any effort to reform air traffic control.
Air traffic controller shortage of 3,800 due to DEI practices cutting ‘too white, too elite’ candidates: lawyer
A critical shortage of 3,800 air traffic controllers is because of the Federal Aviation Administration’s DEI practices ...
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Air traffic controllers say FAA hiring practices, ‘immunity program,’ led to DC plane crash
As for the FAA, an ATC tried unsuccessfully to contact the helicopter less than 30 seconds before the collision, according to audio from air traffic control. The FAA was warned in a 2023 report that ...
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Air Traffic Controllers Blow Whistle On FAA, Say DEI Hiring Practices Led To DC Disaster
A 2023 report warned the FAA that air traffic controllers were increasingly making last-minute flight adjustments due to traffic and staffing shortages, raising safety concerns. The report highlighted ...
Black Hawk pilots may have missed air traffic directive, flown on ‘bad’ altitude data before crash
The Black Hawk pilots who collided with an American Airlines plane last month may not have heard vital information given by ...
Wall Street Journal5d
How Elon Musk Can Bring Air Traffic Under Control
Photo: Drew Angerer/AFP/Getty Images/Kevin Lamarque/AP Other mishaps include a January 2023 outage of the Federal Aviation Administration’s critical pilots’ warning system, which disrupted ...
New York Magazine4d
All the Federal Agencies DOGE Has Gotten Access To
FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) Musk said in a February 5 X post that he and DOGE “will aim to make rapid safety upgrades to the air traffic control system.” His announcement came days ...
NewsNation3d
FAA bars helicopters, planes from sharing air space over Potomac
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – FEBRUARY 04: The air traffic control tower after the American Airlines crash ... air space over the Potomac River near busy Reagan National Airport, the FAA announced after a ...