Air traffic controllers often sit in a darkened room, understaffed, staring at radar scopes with airspace filled to capacity making split second decisions where hundreds of lives hang in the balance.

An exclusive video obtained by CBS News shows inside the problem-plagued air traffic control facility that handles flights in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport during the brief ...

Simply stated, air-traffic control is a 24/7 high-tech operation trapped inside a regulatory agency. The FAA is bound by stultifying federal rules and sees Congress, not the traveling public ...

Today, we're going to hear a perspective from inside that system from an air traffic controller who was working the airspace around Newark during one of those outages. NPR's Joel Rose covers ...

WEST TEN EIGHT. GO HEAD CONTACT TOWER. THIS IS ABOUT AS CLOSE AS YOU CAN GET TO REALLY BEING INSIDE AN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL TOWER. THIS SIMULATOR IS BRAND NEW AT NASHUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE AHEAD OF ...

With a trio of air traffic control equipment failures in little more than a week, Newark Liberty Airport has become the poster child for the problems plaguing the nation‘s airports. The meltdown ...

The problems that disrupted flights at New Jersey’s largest airport this spring could be repeated anywhere across the country ...

Radar and telecommunications systems for Newark Airport’s air traffic controllers failed Friday morning — the second time the two critical systems went down at the same time in less than two ...

An air traffic controller who works the airspace around Newark, N.J. talks about what it was like to lose radar and communication systems during a shift, and how the situation got to be so bad.