The Federal Aviation Administration’s website boasts that the U.S. has the world's toughest qualifications for airline pilots.

DALLAS — Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board will likely be studying three main elements as they try ...

Aviation experts say that while the mid-air collision in Washington, D.C., is tragic, it is not indicative of air traffic controllers or pilots.

A source tells NBC News that, according to a preliminary FAA report, a single air traffic controller was handling both planes ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday took executive action to address FAA hires and aviation safety after an Army Black Hawk ...

Less than a day after the deadly collision of American Airlines 5342 and a US Army Blackhawk helicopter killed 67 people over ...

Air traffic controller shortages, soaring travel demand, a surge of airport near-collisions and complaints of congressional dysfunction escalated before the U.S. saw its first fatal domestic airline ...

Following the deadly crash of regional American Airlines flight 5342 with a Black Hawk Sikorsky helicopter on January 29, safety experts voice concerns about flight safety.

It appears that the first major air disaster in the U.S. since 2009 has occurred while the Federal Aviation Administration ...

Mike Whitaker, the previous FAA administrator, stepped down on Inauguration Day after just over a year on the job. He’d ...

The plane crash at DCA raised questions about recent leadership changes within the federal agencies charged with regulating ...

The FAA has said that all controllers have to meet tough testing and training standards and go through a lengthy certification process.