Trump’s Plan to Fix Air Traffic Control Faces Huge Hurdles May 8, 2025 By David Shepardson and Rajesh Kumar Singh U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Thursday will call for tens of billions of dollars to overhaul America’s strained air...
Transportation Chief to Unveil Plan to Upgrade Air Traffic Control March 24, 2025 By David Shepardson Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will unveil a plan next week to upgrade the aging, under-staffed U.S. air traffic control system...
U.S. Says Air Travel Safe After Workers Warn of Risks of Shutdown January 10, 2019 By David Shepardson U.S. airport security workers and air traffic controllers working without pay have been warning that security and safety could be...
Mobile Apps Help Lower Fatal Private Plane Crashes August 12, 2016 By Alan Levin Fatalities in crashes of small private planes have fallen to the lowest levels in decades as industry and government work...
Passengers Risk Lives Grabbing Luggage as Planes Burn August 8, 2016 By Justin Bachman If your flight has an emergency and you’re told to evacuate, be certain that at least two things will happen....
Russian Air Crash Bomb Theories Highlight Insider Threat to Aviation Security November 6, 2015 By Alan Levin and Chris Strohm The possibility that Islamic terrorists smuggled a bomb onto a Russian jet flying home from Egypt highlights a new area...
Update: Investigators Expected to Quickly Unravel Mystery of Russian Plane Crash November 2, 2015 By Alan Levin, Andrea Rothman and Andrey Lemeshko Investigators probing the crash of an Airbus Group SE jetliner in Egypt will focus on how a plane built to...
Germanwings Crash Shows Need for Protections Against Suicidal Crew Members March 26, 2015 By Alan Levin and Mary Schlangenstein The suspected intentional destruction of a Germanwings jet by a pilot shows the need for new protections against suicidal crew...
Cell Phone Use Deemed Safe on Europe Airlines September 26, 2014 By Richard Weiss European airlines received permission from regulators to have passengers use personal electronic devices including mobile phones during flight, removing one...