At a news conference, Trump read a list of conditions he called disqualifying, but his administration started such hiring in ...

During Trump’s first term, the FAA began a program to hire air traffic controllers with the conditions that Trump decried.

Staffing in the air traffic control tower was "not normal" at time of the midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., according to a ...

The FAA, which is responsible for overseeing air traffic control operations ... that are essential to keeping us safe.” Time map; Getty Images The Associated Press reported on Jan. 21, the ...

Air traffic controllers are only allowed to ... the altitude of the helicopter involved in the crash. Maps published by the FAA show that helicopters are required to stay below 200ft in the ...

The air traffic controllers union responded Friday to claims by President Trump this week that diversity programs contributed ...

Wednesday’s fatal collision and two other incidents dramatically illustrate the challenges pilots and air traffic controllers ...

A single controller was left to handle the air traffic of planes and helicopters flying over the airspace when two people would typically.

Investigators searching for wreckage from last week’s deadly midair collision between a US military Black Hawk helicopter and ...

The map states that "all routes may be altered at pilot's request or as directed by" air traffic control. Helicopters ...

We learned about 30 minutes after this post that the FAA **during the Trump administration** launched a program to hire air traffic controllers with these conditions. The Post’s Aaron Blake ...