ATC Napped On Air Mattresses In The Tower, Left Duty Early
When midnight rolled around and flight traffic thinned out, air-traffic controllers guiding planes in the busiest U.S. corridor whipped out laptops to...
When midnight rolled around and flight traffic thinned out, air-traffic controllers guiding planes in the busiest U.S. corridor whipped out laptops to...
AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 05.08.2012
WASHINGTON — In an unusual public rebuke, a government watchdog charged Tuesday that airline safety regulators have lagged in responding to urge...
Posted 02.24.2012
It looks like guiding planes isn't keeping the air traffic controllers at New York's Westchester County Airport busy enough. Footage obtained by Fox 5...
Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 07.20.2011
Our puritanical culture celebrates surviving on the least sleep, sneers at those who appear to need more and sacrifices sleep -- a fundamental biological need -- in favor of all other activity.
AP | Posted 07.19.2011
CHICAGO -- The Federal Aviation Administration says an error by an air traffic controller caused a close call this week between two planes operating a...
David Katz, M.D. | Posted 07.04.2011
As a frequent flier, I wince at every story of an inattentive air traffic controller. A parallel dilemma related to the working hours of medical residents is playing out at lower altitudes.
David Wild | Posted 06.21.2011
Rather than fire anybody like the Federal Aviation Administration, I thought I'd try to come up with an exhaustive playlist to help our overworked air traffic controllers stay awake on the job.
Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 11.17.2011
While I believe that no one should be working a night shift by himself or herself, air traffic controllers, pilots and anyone with responsibilities late at night or after long days should also consider these tips.
HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 06.19.2011
In the opening paragraphs of "Something's Got to Give," Darcy Frey's classic 1996 profile of air traffic controllers, a team of controllers sit in a d...
AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 06.17.2011
WASHINGTON — The government said Sunday it is giving air traffic controllers an extra hour off between shifts so they don't doze off at work, a ...
AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 06.16.2011
WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration changed air traffic control work schedules Saturday, acknowledging it has a widespread problem ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.15.2011
Something the media largely missed in the midst of multiple budgetary battles this week was the fact that this is what bipartisanship looks like.
AOL Travel News | Posted 05.30.2011
turtlemom4bacon, flickr An air traffic control supervisor has been suspended for the second time in one week -- this time for actions that caused a c...
AP | By JOAN LOWY | Posted 05.25.2011
Joan Lowy, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The nation's top aviation official says he's ordered new procedures for controllers to prevent a repeat of ...
Christine Negroni | Posted 05.25.2011
The digitization of all things flight-related has left the station. That all this high-technology may sometimes err is as certain as the fallibility of low-tech humans.
Michael Moore | Posted 05.25.2011
Dear Rahm Emanuel, I read this week that during White House meetings about how to save the tens of thousands of jobs that would be lost if GM and Chrysler collapsed, your response was, "F**k the UAW!" Let me give you a little f**king lesson.
AP | JUERGEN BAETZ | Posted 05.25.2011
BERLIN — A regional air traffic control system outage sharply limited flights around much of northern Europe Friday, causing delays for tens of ...
David Melcher | Posted 05.25.2011
This afternoon at the 2010 Farnborough International Airshow in London, I had the pleasure of hosting a panel of experts from the aviation industry that discussed the critical need for modernizing air traffic management (ATM) systems around the world.
Steven R. Loranger | Posted 05.25.2011
We need government and business and citizenry to work together so the critical networks in our skies--and under our feet--will meet the needs of generations to come.
David Melcher | Posted 05.25.2011
If you've spent any time recently waiting for a delayed flight in an airport terminal, you know first-hand that air traffic congestion in the U.S. is a growing problem.
nydailynews.com | Michael J. Feeney and Rich Schapiro | Posted 05.25.2011
An air traffic controller's stunt in letting his 9-year-old twins direct planes has landed with a thud - on the kids. Glenn Duffy's twins, a brother ...
Georges Ugeux | Posted 05.25.2011
Will European Governments have the leadership, the ability and the political will to restore a sensible balance between social contribution and costs?
Jack Hidary | Posted 05.25.2011
The New York air traffic system is the busiest air system in the United States, but according to the Homeland Security Newswire, we have a dangerously low number of qualified air traffic controllers.
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011
Excerpts from draft government transcripts of conversations between the control tower of the Teterboro, N.J., airport and the pilot of a Piper plane t...
AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Federal safety officials investigating a midair collision over the Hudson River changed their account of the accident on a key poin...
Bloomberg | Alan Levin | Posted 05.11.2012