Map Shows US 2025 Air Traffic Accidents as Flight Crashes in North Carolina
A string of fatal crashes has intensified pressure on regulators and lawmakers to ensure the safety of American aviation.
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FAA Layoffs Reportedly Included Employees Who Produced Critical ATC Maps
According to ABC News, some of these workers belonged to the FAA’s Air Traffic Organization (ATO) en route charting group.
Transportation Sec. Duffy lays out 10 ways the FAA is working to upgrade air traffic control and make flying safer
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy listed things like using AI to comb through safety reports and replacing old floppy disks ...
The US is struggling to hire air traffic controllers. A surprising age limit and grueling schedules could fuel the problem
Millions of travelers rely on air traffic controllers every day to orchestrate high-speed maneuvers and help prevent planes from crashing. But a critical shortage has forced many to work “six days a ...
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Layoffs hit FAA, including employees tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps
"If we're no longer there to create the maps that air traffic air ... FAA's Air Traffic Control System Command Center in Warrenton, Va., shows flights in North American airspace, Aug. 17, 2011.
Some of the 400 jobs that were cut at the FAA helped support air safety, a union says
A union says jobs eliminated at the Federal Aviation Administration had direct roles in supporting safety inspectors and airport operations ...
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Aviation experts urge investments in air traffic control staffing, new technologies
March 4 (UPI) --The nation's air traffic control system ... cited a 2023 outage of aging air traffic control system that temporarily shut down the nation's airspace as showing the need to assess ...