Plane with at least 2 aboard crashes in Philadelphia, setting homes ablaze and unleashing a fireball
A medical transport jet crashed in Philadelphia on Friday about 30 seconds after taking off, setting homes ablaze, strewing ...
Over 90% of U.S. airport towers are understaffed, data shows
Less than 10% of the nation's airport terminal towers have enough air traffic controllers to meet a set of standards set by a ...
Air traffic controllers were initially offered buyouts and told to consider leaving government
Just a day before a deadly midair collision at Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C., employees at the Federal ...
'Very dangerous' | North Texas DEI advocate responds to President Trump's mid-air crash speculation
"DEI is not getting rid of merit-based hiring. It's supporting it. It doesn't mean putting unqualified people in jobs." Meryl K. Evans said.
Federal employees ordered to remove pronouns from their email signature and urged to find ‘higher productivity jobs’
On Thursday, as their agency worked to investigate a catastrophic plane crash between an American Airlines jet and an Army ...
Not just Reagan: Airports across the US have struggled with air traffic control staffing in recent years, data shows
Some major US airports had less than 60% of their staffing targets filled with fully certified controllers in recent years, ...
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People with intellectual disabilities do lots of jobs — but they don't direct air traffic
After the fatal crash over the Potomac River, President Trump blamed diversity hiring. But that's not how disability hiring works.
What to know about the suit against FAA diversity policies critics blame for crash
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.
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Virginia senator concerned about future of Federal Aviation Administration staffing after plane crash near Reagan National Airport
U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) was in Falls Church on Friday where he talked about concerns he has around Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) staffing.
Trump targets FAA diversity efforts in plane crash probe despite no evidence they played any role
No evidence has emerged that rules seeking to diversify the FAA played any role in the collision Wednesday between an ...
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Is flying still safe? Here’s what experts say
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 ...
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FAA workers pushed to find ‘higher productivity jobs’ 24 hours after deadly crash: report
Just 24 hours after the worst U.S. aviation disaster in decades, employees at the Federal Aviation Administration received a ...