The FAA basically decided the students were too white and the schools too elite, so in 2013 knocked them off the preferred hiring list,” claimed lawyer Michael Pearson.

Some major US airports had less than 60% of their staffing targets filled with fully certified controllers in recent years, ...

The responsibility of handling air traffic control for helicopters and incoming planes at Reagan National Airport were combined on Wednesday night ahead of a deadly collision, a report said.

One air traffic controller was reportedly working two tower positions at the time of Wednesday's fatal crash near D.C.

A single controller was left to handle the air traffic of planes and helicopters flying over the airspace when two people would typically be monitoring both flight paths, sources told NBC.

At the time of the collision, one controller was managing traffic for both helicopters and planes, according to The New York Times An air traffic controller was allowed to leave their post early ...