The fragile state of the U.S. air traffic control system was easy to see during the recent outages in Newark. But it will be ...

Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy joins 'America's Newsroom' to discuss safety concerns after an air traffic control employee said the level of stress in the job is 'unsurmountable' and his report on ...

While the reason for the co-pilot’s alleged jumping remains a mystery, after the successful emergency landing, 23-year-old ...

A couple of wild birds caused a commotion aboard a Delta flight. Video captured by a passenger shows one of the birds flying ...

Investigators looking into the Thursday, May 22, small plane crash in a San Diego neighborhood that killed six people on ...

The summer travel season is underway, with millions of Americans on the move this weekend. But there are big questions about whether the nation's air traffic control system is ready for the surge.

In the stillness of night, a quiet, tree-lined street in a San Diego neighborhood was plunged into chaos when a plane clipped ...

Radar service remains… CHANG: Communications and radar systems went dark several times at the air traffic control facility in Philadelphia, where controllers manage the airspace around Newark, as you ...

In recent weeks, the radar and communications systems for Newark's airspace failed on multiple occasions, further stressing air traffic controllers and raising alarms about safety. Here & Now's ...

An air traffic controller who works the airspace around ... as you can hear in these archived audio recordings from the website liveatc.net. (SOUNDBITE OF MONTAGE) UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: We ...

So, Joel, who was this air traffic controller that you spoke with ... The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.