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Students in a building located at Bartow Executive Airport are using a $280,000 simulator, typically reserved for the ...
CBS News got an up-close look at a pilot's training inside a 737 Max simulator amid a renewed focus on the U.S.' aging air traffic control system.
An effort to privatize U.S. air traffic control in 2017 never took off. Now the aviation industry is uniting behind the Trump administration's plan to overhaul the system.
Air traffic control towers are under-staffed and under-funded. Here's why that's been so difficult for Washington to solve.
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.
Air traffic controllers across the country have grappled with radar and communications outages for years, CNN review finds.
A radio failure Monday at the Denver Air Traffic Control Center temporarily affected communications, according to the FAA.
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 a lot harder to make up for decades of underinvestment and other mistakes.
Pilots flying into Denver International Airport on Monday couldn’t communicate with air traffic controllers for about six minutes after multiple radio transmitters failed, according to reporting ...
Part of the air route traffic control center handling Denver flights lost communications for about 90 seconds on Monday afternoon, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.
CBS News got an up-close look at a pilot's training inside a 737 Max simulator amid a renewed focus on the U.S.' aging air traffic control system.
US air traffic control still runs on Windows 95 and floppy disks Agency seeks contractors to modernize decades-old systems within four years.