“We know that there will be loss,” he said. The plane was registered in Mexico. Jet Rescue is based in Mexico and has operations both there and in the U.S. The crash came just two days after ...

Thank you for tuning in to our live blog of the Washington DC plane crash ... which records conversations between the pilots and air traffic control, was recovered with water damage, but that ...

One of New York's main air traffic control facilities is staffed at just about 58% of where the FAA wants it. With three major airports and a steady stream of flights, the FAA describes the ...

That means the helicopter's pilot requested permission to proceed, taking responsibility to look out for the plane and avoid it. The request was in response to a question by air traffic control ...

In the minutes before an American Airlines flight crashed into the Potomac River in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, an air traffic controller requested a last-minute runway change. The regional jet ...

Understaffed and overworked air traffic control crews have long been an issue ... handling helicopter traffic and someone else handling plane traffic, because those pilots speak on different ...

In this edition: New plane crash details and footage emerge ... showing that staffing at the air traffic control tower at Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) was “not normal for the ...

One person typically handles both plane and helicopter duties at the ... A breakdown in communication with air traffic control could be a key element behind the crash, which left 67 people dead.

The deaths of 67 people in this week's tragic plane crash in Washington DC have focused scrutiny on America's air traffic control system and whether failings within it contributed to the disaster.

New footage has captured the moment a passenger plane and military helicopter ... referred to as Route 4, from air traffic control. This allows helicopters to fly at low altitude along the bank ...

The investigation will focus, in part, on personnel who were at Reagan National Airport, where a government report indicated the air traffic control tower was understaffed at the time of the crash.

Both the voice and data recorders have been recovered from the plane, according to Inman. The NTSB has begun the process of extracting data from them, a process that the board member said will ...