Washington plane crash report says 'control tower staffing level not normal' at time of disaster
A preliminary safety report found that a single controller was responsible for both managing helicopters in the airport's ...
'Skin in the Game': Lawyers Call for Pressure After American Airlines Crash
"How do you force them to put skin in the game?" said airline industry plaintiff lawyer Robert A. Clifford, founder of ...
DC Plane Crash Update as Black Boxes Found in Potomac River, NTSB Confirms
The crash occurred on Wednesday night, involving a CRJ700 regional jet from Kansas and a Sikorsky H-60 military helicopter.
Air traffic control staffing was ‘not normal’ ahead of D.C. plane crash, report says. Follow live updates.
According to a report by the FAA, one air traffic controller was working two positions at the time of the crash.
Is flying becoming more dangerous? Fears grow after American Airlines flight tragedy
The highest number of aviation deaths in one year on record, since the understandably high crash rate of the Forties ( Second World War) is 1972, when 3,346 died, the data states. But this was not an ...