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The FAA ordered an independent panel hired to recommend ways to strengthen oversight of its air traffic control operations to stop work.
Previously failed test flights resulted in Starship debris raining down over Turks and Caicos and parts of the Bahamas.
Picking out the worst performer among President Donald Trump’s Cabinet appointees is a tough job — it’s a competitive race, ...
FAA Administrator Michael Whitaker said Boeing's Safety and Quality Plan is “comprehensive” and includes “six very distinctive key performance metrics that we’ll be able to monitor in real ...
“This has been meant to get us healthy on a staffing level,” said Michael Whitaker, former FAA administrator during the Biden ...
An air traffic controller who works the airspace around Newark, N.J. speaks out about what it was like to lose radar and ...
It may not be long before the transportation secretary's ideological vetting of contracts and his decimation of staff at the FAA cause even greater disruptions.
The panel had been tasked late last year by then-FAA Administrator Michael Whitaker to study ways to reduce conflicts of interest in the FAA’s oversight of air traffic control organization.
Here's Michael Whitaker, the FAA administrator during the Biden administration, explaining the rationale for this back in November. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) MICHAEL WHITAKER: With this ...
Before the election, Trump’s top campaign donor, Elon Musk, demanded that the FAA’s then-administrator, Michael Whitaker, resign. At this point, we weren’t even one month into Trump’s ...