The passenger plane was headed towards Arizona but faced difficulties almost immediately after takeoff, heartbreaking audio ...

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A small aircraft crashed off the coast of San Diego, resulting in the deaths of six people, according to the Federal Aviation ...

The pilot can then be heard shouting, "Mayday, mayday, mayday," followed by the controller stating that they have lost ...

Six people were killed when a small plane crashed into the ocean off San Diego on Sunday afternoon, the Federal Aviation ...

Parts of the U.S. air traffic control system still rely on floppy disks and computers running Windows 95. The Trump administration is pushing for an overhaul, but it won't be easy or cheap.

The fragile state of the U.S. air traffic control system was easy to see during the recent outages in Newark. But it will be a lot harder to make up for decades of underinvestment and other mistakes.

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Investigators looking into the Thursday, May 22, small plane crash in a San Diego neighborhood that killed six people on ...

The summer travel season is underway, with millions of Americans on the move this weekend. But there are big questions about whether the nation's air traffic control system is ready for the surge.

CHILLING audio has exposed the moment that air traffic ... FAA's statement about issues at Newark Airport "Our antiquated air traffic control system is affecting our workforce," the FAA said ...

but the plane's pilots never conveyed any distress to the local air traffic control tower. Investigators searched for the plane's cockpit voice recorder, which might provide clues as to what was ...