A string of fatal crashes has intensified pressure on regulators and lawmakers to ensure the safety of American aviation.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the plan after the FAA laid off roughly 400 probationary employees.

On his social media platform, Elon Musk posted, ‘SpaceX engineers will help make air travel safer,’ after job cuts at the FAA ...

Black Hawk pilots may not have heard a critical directive from air traffic control to fly behind the ... marking the deadliest US air disaster since 2001. There was also an apparent discrepancy ...

More than two weeks after a helicopter and airplane collision over Washington killed 67 people, investigators have completed ...

Since the crash in Washington DC, several experts have claimed there have long been concerns about the state of US air traffic control system. Aviation industry analyst Sally Gethin told Sky News ...

An increase in drones flying in the low airspace of populated areas may increase the chance of collisions if the drones are not tracked properly.

These reports are then examined to see if delays are caused by weather, air traffic control, or other systemic inefficiencies. In February 2023, the US Department of Transportation's Office of the ...

Billy Nolen, a former acting Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) administrator, said Monday that now is the time for air ...

Firings affected several hundred workers responsible for maintaining FAA radar, landing systems and navigational aids.

In fact, researchers at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Utah believe it can be done using an ad-hoc air traffic control setup for drones at a cost of just a few hundred dollars. The team's Local ...

Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and John Hoeven (R-N.D.) urged the agency to address the “urgent need” of air traffic controllers amid staffing shortages, citing last month’s midair collision at ...