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  2. America desperately needs more air traffic controllers. So ...

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    The US air traffic control system has been stretched nearly to its breaking point by a decades-long staffing shortage. It’s causing problems not just for the air traffic controllers that remain ...

  3. DC plane crash: NTSB on air traffic control tower staffing ...

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    The National Transportation Safety Board said there were five people in the air traffic control tower at Reagan Washington National Airport during the Jan. 29 collision of a passenger jet and an ...

  4. DC plane crash: ATC staffing levels under scrutiny as barges ...

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    Barges are expected to arrive in the D.C area on Saturday to help with salvage operations from Wednesday's deadly plane crash at Regan National Airport as investigator's probe the cause of a ...

  5. Understaffed Air Traffic Control, DEI Are Unlikely Causes of ...

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    However, current and former air traffic controllers who spoke to Reason said that it is standard for a single controller to be responsible for all local air traffic, including both helicopters and ...

  6. Air traffic controller left early from work before crash: report

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    However, on Wednesday, an air traffic control supervisor combined those duties sometime before 9:30 p.m. and allowed one air traffic controller to leave the job early, the Times reported.

  7. 'We have a lost aircraft': Philadelphia air traffic control ...

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    Air traffic control communications reveal the moments when controllers tried to reach a doomed Medevac jet in Philadelphia, which crashed Friday night, killing at least 7 people and injuring at ...

  8. 2025 Potomac River mid-air collision - Wikipedia

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    This was a policy introduced in 2019 by the his own administration's FAA, which announced a program to allow 20 people with "targeted disabilities" to train at air traffic control centers for air traffic operations careers; however, several of these disabilities such as epilepsy, poor vision, and some mental disorders were still disqualifying ...

  9. Airplane near-misses remain high as overworked, burnt-out air ...

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    The deadly air collision that killed 67 people in Washington, DC Wednesday night came amid an air traffic control staffing crisis and alarmingly high rates of near-misses on airport runaways....