With the exponential rise in drone activity, safely managing low-flying airspace has become a major issue. Using a network of ...

Remember when the co-founder of the game studio that made early Call of Duty titles accidentally crashed his drone into a ...

The FAA basically decided the students were too white and the schools too elite, so in 2013 knocked them off the preferred ...

North Carolina Congressman Addison McDowell says the aging systems and technology that air traffic controllers and pilots ...

But one thing has been clear for decades: America’s air-traffic control system ... to rely on much less precise readings from radio beacons and ground-based radar. Overseas controllers use ...

Using radio traffic, flight data and leaked footage of an air traffic control radar screen, we examine what was happening in the moments before the midair collision near Reagan National Airport that ...

Flight altitude data indicates that the Army Black Hawk helicopter was well above the 200ft maximum limit for the area where ...

This data provided to air traffic control, which is fused in part from multiple radar sensors, is rounded to the nearest 100 feet, according to NTSB. The maximum altitude for a helicopter to fly ...

Controllers currently use antiquated equipment, including a radar-based system of keeping track of planes. An effort to transition to a satellite-based air traffic control system known as NextGen ...

President Donald Trump says he thinks last week’s deadly collision between a passenger jet and Army helicopter wouldn't have happened if the U.S. had a more modern air traffic control computer system ...

With the exponential rise in drone activity, safely managing low-flying airspace has become challenging — especially in ...