FOX 13’s Carla Bayron reports on Polk County working to fill the desperate need for more air traffic controllers nationwide by building a new control tower operator academy at Bartow Executive Airport ...
Some major US airports had less than 60% of their staffing targets filled with fully certified controllers in recent years, ...
Airspace congestion, controller fatigue and more. Here’s what to know as federal officials descend on the Potomac River.
Divers are expected to return to the Potomac River as part of the recovery and investigation after the United States’ ...
The D.C. plane crash this week highlighted the desperate need for more air traffic controllers across the country. In Polk County, a new control tower operator academy is working towards fixing that ...
There's still a lot we don't know and initial speculation from the media and the president about the causes of Wednesday's ...
A lawsuit alleges the FAA denied 1,000 air traffic control applicants due to diversity hiring policies, sparking debate amid a fatal midair collision in D.C.
As recovery crews endure cold water and miserable rain Friday to attempt to pull more wreckage of American Airlines Flight ...
The Associated Press reported that the air traffic controller was very understaffed when the deadly plane and helicopter collision near Washington, D.C. happened. With this in mind, 8News reached ...
Inside the UMass Transportation Center in Chicopee, you'll find one of the only 360-degree air traffic control tower simulators in the country.
There are new questions concerning air safety, following the mid-air collision between an American Airlines flight and a ...
But even accounting for serious accidents, "statistically speaking, you're safer in your flight than you were driving in your car to the airport," said Brickhouse, who has decades of experience in ...