Controllers must meet strict eligibility requirements and complete years of training before taking charge of airspace.

President Donald Trump has caused controversy after suggesting that diversity programmes supported by his predecessors played a role in Wednesday's mid-air collision between a passenger jet and ...

WE WILL BE A READY PARTNER WITH THE ADMINISTRATION AND CONGRESS IN ANY EFFORT TO FURTHER MODERNIZE THE ATC SYSTEM TO ... and inclusion policies in Federal Aviation Administration hiring practices.

“For example, prior to my Inauguration, the FAA Diversity and Inclusion website revealed that the prior administration sought to specifically recruit and hire individuals with serious ...

Meanwhile, a preliminary FAA report indicated that a single air traffic controller was monitoring both airplanes and helicopters at the time of the devastating crash. Staffing levels at the time ...

"You are listening to instructions from ATC. ATC is telling you what to do." Duckworth said an FAA briefing involving ... Francisco to Washington, DC, for example, could interact with more than ...

2005) (FAA immune for liability for contracting ATC services out to inexperienced ... 2d 1236 (9th Cir. 1979), for example, the fact that a student pilot’s high wing might have obstructed ...

headed for a crisis," arguing the ATC was ideal for privatization under White House advisor and tech billionaire Elon Musk's push to slim down government. But Michael McCormick, a former FAA ...