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Worries over military chopper routes, FAA staffing levels emerge as factors in midair crash inquiry
The National Transportation Safety Board enters a second day of public hearings Thursday on the January midair collision ...
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FAA staffing issues brought up during inquiry, testimony
Long-standing concerns about military helicopters flying in crowded airspace and worries over short staffing among federal ...
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'Not gonna put up with that': FAA hearing gets tense after employee elbowed into silence
A National Transportation Safety Board hearing over the deadly Washington, D.C. plane crash has uncovered startling revelations in the past two days, but one supervisor at the Federal Aviation ...
Plane Crash Hearing Witness Called Out for Allegedly 'Elbowing FAA Employee Mid-Sentence': ‘Not Gonna Put Up with That’
As the investigative hearing into the deadly mid-air crash between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines passenger jet ...
FAA failed to act before helicopter crash, US transport chief says
The Federal Aviation Administration failed to act despite dozens of near-miss incidents before a fatal January crash between ...
Feds launch audit into FAA over gutted Long Island air traffic control facility as safety concerns rise over Newark airspace
Staff are burnt out — and very concerned about safety and feel very strongly that those moved to Philadelphia should come ...
FAA to modernize 40-year-old system after fatal Washington DC crash
New FAA administrator Bryan Bedford called the U.S. air traffic control system "unacceptable" and vowed major tech upgrades ...
NTSB criticizes FAA for failing to act before fatal Army helicopter collision
The head of the National Transportation Safety Board sharply criticized U.S. officials for failing to act before the January ...