Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. And three times, they say, is a trend. So it checks out that there’s a big question on the minds of many U.S. travelers: Why are so many planes crashing?

NEW YORK — Summoned from his couch to cover last week's plane disaster in Washington, CNN's Pete Muntean rushed in for the first of 24 live reports over the next 48 hours. At one point, he used ...

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is currently addressing several critical avionics issues to enhance aviation safety and operational efficiency. One prominent area of focus is the ...

The FAA took additional steps to prevent helicopter-plane collisions such as the one that killed 67 people last week. NBC News' Tom Costello reports.Feb. 5, 2025 ...

Among his chief targets: An FAA diversity hiring initiative he suggested had undermined the agency’s effectiveness. “But certainly for an air traffic controller, we want the brightest ...

Rachel Maddow tells the story of how the former FAA administrator, Michael Whitaker, fell afoul of Elon Musk and was driven from his position upon Donald Trump taking office. With Trump's ...

Federal workers were caught off guard Thursday by a test email. Federal workers were caught off guard Thursday by a mysterious email with the subject line "Email Test." "This is a test of a new ...

DroneDeploy announced Jan. 28 it has been granted Federal Aviation Administration approval for a nationwide U.S. Beyond Visual Line of Sight waiver where a pilot on the ground cannot see a full ...

During my time as an FAA safety inspector, I was based at the FAA headquarters just a couple of miles from Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) for five years. During that time I observed ...

He blamed former President Joe Biden’s administration for encouraging the Federal Aviation Administration to recruit workers “who suffer severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems and ...

But it’s also worth noting that some of Trump’s specific assertions about the FAA’s push to hire people with disabilities were either inaccurate or missing critical context about what ...

citing an internal preliminary Federal Aviation Administration safety report about the collision. The controller who was handling helicopter’s near the airport at the time was also instructing ...