In some particularly busy patches of the sky, like the area around New York City or the part handled by an overtaxed center in Jacksonville, Florida, air traffic control short staffing has meant ...

leaving those in the tower “unable to see, hear, or talk to” planes in the sky, a National Air Traffic Controllers Association spokesperson said Monday. Newark Airport has experienced ...

The communications breakdown last week that resulted in air traffic controllers losing ... the controller who spoke with NBC News said the control tower is struggling to keep up with the flights ...

But behind the scenes, the technology that’s keeping the planes in the sky is frighteningly out ... Congress for not investing in critical air traffic control technology across the nation ...

The New York-New Jersey air space is arguably the most complex air space in the world. The local control tower at ... the air traffic controllers where the planes are in the sky.

"That's 90 seconds of a wholly filled-up sky of planes literally flying ... The audio released on Tuesday by LiveATC.net is between an air traffic control tower in Philadelphia, and pilots flying ...

and mainly dealing with planes higher up in the sky and farther apart from one another. Its mission differs from the Newark Liberty International Airport air traffic control tower, which mainly ...