Air traffic controllers in Florida briefly lost their radar after a fiber optic line was cut, but the outage didn’t lead to ...

Pilots flying near Denver International Airport lost contact with air traffic control for almost two minutes on May 12.

The Denver Air Route Traffic Control Center, located in Longmont, directs planes flying at high altitude between airports in nine states.

Most air traffic control towers and facilities across the US currently operate with technology that seems frozen in the 20th century, although that isn't necessarily a bad thing—when it works.

Still, the episode does a great job of emphasizing the main point that decades of failure to make meaningful progress on solving the problems air traffic controllers face have left us in a truly ...

More than a third of the nation's air traffic control systems are unsustainable, according to an FAA assessment from 2023, and some are starting to fail. The fragile state of the system became ...

May 28 (UPI) --Air traffic controllers have been in the news a lot lately. A spate of airplane crashes and near misses have highlighted the ongoing shortage of air traffic workers, leading more ...

The Federal Aviation Administration found in 2023 that more than a third of the nation's air traffic control systems are unsustainable. And some are starting to fail, as we saw during the recent ...

More than a third of the nation's air traffic control systems are unsustainable, according to an FAA assessment from 2023, and some are starting to fail. The fragile state of the system became ...

The air traffic control outages at Newark airport fueled weeks of delays. But the underlying problems reflect a safety system that is teetering on the brink of crisis.