Breaking News Reporter A preliminary report suggests control tower staffing was inadequate when an American Airlines jet collided with a U.S. Army helicopter, plunging 67 people to their death in ...

The National Transportation Safety Board said there were five people in the air traffic control tower at Reagan Washington National Airport during the Jan. 29 collision of a passenger jet and an ...

The air traffic control tower at Reagan National Airport was understaffed on Wednesday evening when a passenger plane and a military helicopter collided in midair, according to a government report ...

Reagan National Airport’s control tower has been chronically understaffed.Credit...Kent Nishimura for The New York Times Supported by By Emily Steel and Sydney Ember Emily Steel and Sydney Ember ...

Not everyone would look at the “creamy concrete texture and circular windows” of the now-defunct LaGuardia air traffic control tower and think of Swiss cheese. Or glance at the Paris-Orly ...

The airport is about one-third finished with construction of a new $10 million air traffic control tower, where controllers will orchestrate takeoffs and landings from an eight-story perch.