A preliminary FAA safety report reveals that the air traffic control tower at Reagan National Airport was understaffed during the fatal collision between a passenger aircraft and an army helicopter.

An internal preliminary report from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reportedly showed that the number of staff members working at the air control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington ...

Those jobs are typically assigned to two people, not one. By Sydney Ember and Emily Steel Staffing at the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport was “not normal for the time ...

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 Federal Aviation Administration and ...

Air Traffic Control (ATC ... About 40 seconds later ground traffic control alerted the tower. "Yup we saw it," someone from the tower says, and then the controllers begin the process of ...

The National Transportation Safety Board said there were five people in the air traffic control tower at Reagan Washington National Airport during the Jan. 29 collision of a passenger jet and an ...

Staffing in the air traffic control tower was "not normal" at time of the midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., according to a ...