The FAA has struggled for decades to keep its towers adequately staffed. Locally, our airports are understaffed, with air traffic controllers who could be fatigued and stressed.

Less than 10% of the nation's airport terminal towers have enough air traffic controllers to meet a set of standards set by a working group that included the FAA and the controllers' union.

The air traffic controllers union responded Friday to claims by President Trump this week that diversity programs contributed to the fatal crash in Washington Wednesday night.

Just a day before a deadly midair collision at Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C., employees at the Federal ...

Reports by pilots and government investigators show how concerns over coordinating airplane and helicopter traffic at Reagan National Airport go back decades.

The head of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association says controllers around the country are devastated by the crash.

Persistent staff shortages have raised safety concerns. At many facilities, staffing is so low that at least a quarter of the ...

Investigators are seeking clues into this week's deadly midair collision this week, the deadliest aviation disaster in the U.S. almost a quarter century.

An Afghanistan veteran and a pilot who once served in the Navy were two of three soldiers killed in an Army helicopter’s midair collision with a commercial jet over the Potomac River in Washington, D.

The two pilots had a combined total of 1,500 flight hours and the crew chief was a senior aviator with at least 500 hours in ...

The FDA approves a new type of nonopioid painkiller for acute pain. And NBC News speaks to transgender service members who ...