UPS plane ordered by controller to abort landing after jet approached runway:

A UPS plane had to abort its landing after a Labcorp aircraft approached a runway at Kentucky’s Louisville International Airport, the site of a deadly cargo plane crash last year.  A Labcorp plane was on the taxiway and told to hold short of runway 17 to allow a UPS plane to land. The Labcorp pilot … Read more

The U.S. faces an air traffic controller shortage. It’s turning to gamers for help.

Young people told by their parents to stop wasting their time playing video games and get a job now have a way to meld the two together, courtesy of the Department of Transportation. As the U.S. deals with a dangerous shortage of air traffic controllers, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Friday the department would be … Read more

D.C. air traffic controller speaks about stressed conditions before midair crash: “It worked until it didn’t”

It was a week of chaos at airports across the country. Gridlock in Washington left TSA workers without pay, triggering four-hour security lines in some of the nation’s busiest airports. Last Sunday a commercial jet crashed into a fire truck while landing on a runway at New York’s Laguardia airport. Dozens were injured and two … Read more