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On January 11, 2023, U.S. flights were grounded or delayed as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) attempted to fix a system outage. [1] [2] FAA paused all flight departures between 7:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. ET. [2] Flights already in the air were allowed to continue to their destinations. [1] Around 8:30 am.
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 ...
Duffy said the US has a chronic understaffing problem in air traffic control. US media has reported that more than 90% of air traffic control facilities in the country are operating below FAA ...
The air control tower at Reagan National has been understaffed for years with 19 fully certified controllers as of September 2023. However, staffing targets set by the FAA and the controllers ...
The air traffic controller on duty at the time of the deadly passenger plane-Black Hawk helicopter crash in Washington, DC, was doing the work of two people, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
An independent team produced a report that found inadequate air-traffic control staffing, combined with outdated equipment and technology, was “rendering the current level of safety ...
The FAA is incorporating the Space Data Integrator (SDI), which is an automated tool that delivers spacecraft-related telemetry information to the FAA Air Traffic Control System Command Center. [287] The FAA deployed an SDI operational prototype to monitor launch and reentry vehicle location and status in near real time.
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.