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Former FAA contractor pleads guilty to spying for Iran, sharing private info on US airports, energy industry
Abouzar Rahmati pleaded guilty to conspiring to act and acting as an agent of the Iranian government in the US without prior notification to the attorney general.
Why Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez and Blue Origin's all-female crew may not actually be astronauts — but something different
Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez, Gayle King and the rest of the Blue Origins crew who flew to space on Monday may not technically be astronauts.
New York Helicopter Tours shuts down after Hudson River crash that killed 6: FAA
The Big Apple sightseeing company involved in the Hudson River helicopter crash that killed six is shutting down its operations “immediately,” the Federal Aviation Administration announced Sunday night, three days...
Smoke billows on LAX runway after flight aborts takeoff over 'unstable nose wheel'
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after a commercial flight bound for Hawaii safely aborted takeoff Friday due to an "unstable" nose wheel.
All passengers presumed dead after small aircraft plummets into 'pretty muddy' upstateNY field: report
At least one person was killed when a twin-engine plane with six people on board crashed Saturday in a muddy field in upstate New York, authorities said.
Head of FAA's Air Traffic Organization resigning after 40 years of federal service
Arel has led the ATO, which oversees the nation’s air traffic control system, through a period of growing scrutiny and recent high-profile safety issues.
FAA worker on leave after alleged assault in air traffic control tower in DC
A Federal Aviation Administration employee working at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport outside of Washington, D.C., was recently charged over a workplace altercation, authorities said.
Delta plane, Air Force jet nearly crash — just 2 months after midair collision killed 67 at same DC airport
The Delta aircraft received an "onboard alert" that another aircraft was nearby, and air traffic controllers issued corrective instructions to both aircraft, according to the FAA.
Unruly traveler restrained on Delta flight after allegedly biting, hitting passengers
An unruly airplane passenger had to be restrained on board after allegedly biting and hitting other travelers on a Delta flight from Atlanta to Los Angeles.
FAA investigates false midair collision alerts sent to multiple flights near Reagan National Airport
In one blitz just after 9 a.m., six similar false alerts were reported within 11 minutes of each other, according to the news station.
Elon Musk begs 'top notch' air traffic controllers to come out of retirement to ease shortage
The face of DOGE, the government's cost-cutting task force, said there is a "shortage" of skilled air traffic controllers.
Family of DC plane crash victim seeking $250 million in first legal action against FAA, Army
The family of a married father of three killed in the Washington, DC plane crash last month is seeking $250 million in the first legal action filed against the Federal...
Trump's transportation honcho welcomes SpaceX employees to Air Traffic Control System Command Center as hundreds of FAA workers fired
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy stressed that Musk and SpaceX are not receiving "special treatment" and that he was open to input from other major tech companies on how to develop...
Yes: Obama, Biden endangered flights by rejecting whites for air-traffic controller jobs
Efforts the Obama and Biden administrations to reduce the number of white candidates in the air-traffic-controller hiring pools left shortages that boosted risks for flights.
All 'major pieces' from midair DC crash recovered -- as it releases new images of wreckage
The "major pieces" of the American Airlines plane and the Black Hawk helicopter have been recovered, and will be transported to a "secure airport facility for further examination and documentation."
DC plane crash: blame FAA's woefully outdated air safety
America’s air-traffic control system, once the world’s most advanced, is an international disgrace — because it's operated by a bloated Washington bureaucracy.
Massive chunk of ice falls from the sky, pierces Florida home and no one's sure where it came from
The FAA confirmed it is investigating a massive chuck of ice that fell from the sky in Florida -- and has a relatively simple theory about how it happened.
Critical air safety system NOTAM goes down nationwide — as US reels from 2 plane crashes
Flights across the US may face "residual delays" Sunday morning as a nationwide Federal Aviation Administration critical warning system experiences an outage —mere days after two deadly plane crashes rocked...
Understaffed, overworked crews plagued Reagan Airport before DC plane crash, lawmakers say
Rep. Troy Nehls told The Post that Federal Aviation Administration officials had known about the "staffing issues" and that the air traffic controller involved was "not only dealing with the...
Federal employees, including FAA, received email encouraging them to resign a day after DC plane crash: report
Federal employees — including ones within the FAA — received a letter from the government urging them to find other jobs a day before and the day after the disastrous...