These near misses are extremely common,” said Ross Aimer, a retired United Airlines Captain who’s now CEO of Aero Consulting ...
I directed a more aggressive climb,” the plane’s captain later reported, “due to aircraft appearing to continue to climb into us.” Neither close call ended in disaster, but both were reported to a ...
New numbers from the FAA show just how understaffed Austin's airport is when it comes to air traffic controllers. 7 On Your ...
In the three years before the deadly collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight near Reagan ...
Aircraft flying in and out of Sky Harbor International Airport nearly collided with each other nine times in the last decade, ...
DC Wednesday night came amid an air traffic control staffing crisis and alarmingly high rates of near-misses on airport runaways. One air traffic controller had been doing the job of two people ...
The fatal midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter followed a string of near misses ...
According to the FAA, near-midair collisions around Reagan National Airport has been higher than the national rate. Aviation experts weigh in.
The previous near-misses between planes and helicopters ... Audio from moments before the disaster captured by LiveATC.net shows that an air traffic controller asked the helicopter pilot if ...
When pilots report near-midair collisions around Reagan National Airport, there's often a military aircraft involved, an NPR ...
For at least two decades, pilots have complained about near misses with helicopters and other ... had to make a "missed approached" after the air traffic control tower alerted them of a military ...