British Airways flight forced to make emergency landing in Scotland after pilot issues alert
The passenger plane - which was travelling from Reykjavik in Iceland to London Heathrow - had to stop in Inverness on Friday ...
Opinion
Should we not celebrate the success of Prestwick Airport?
The US Air Force remains a major customer of Prestwick Airport, a key refuelling stop for its planes. The airport undertakes fuelling with its own staff, as is the case with air traffic control and a ...
The 10 Longest Routes At Glasgow Airport
Glasgow (GLA) is the second busiest airport in Scotland behind Edinburgh (EDI), and it also consistently ranks in the top 10 ...
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Glasgow Prestwick Airport leverages improved infrastructure to handle its longest-ever cargo
Glasgow Prestwick Airport (PIK) has handled its longest-ever piece of freight, as part of a consignment for the oil and gas ...
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Families visit crash site days after deadliest US air disaster in a generation
“That’s what our job is, to figure that out,” NTSB member Todd Inman said. The air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan ...
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D.C. Plane Crash Live Updates: Black Boxes Recovered From Plane And Helicopter
Reagan Washington National Airport. Jan. 31 ... report on the incident noted that the staffing at the air traffic control tower was not “normal,” pointing to the fact that a single air ...
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National Airport has long struggled to manage helicopter traffic, records show
which presents a challenge during heavy air traffic. Among other staffers, two people were handling the jobs of four people inside the airport’s control tower at the time of the crash ...
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Over 90% of U.S. airport towers are understaffed, data shows
Only one air traffic control worker was managing the helicopters and some planes from the Reagan National Airport tower at the time of the collision, a job normally done by two people, two sources ...
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A timeline of the collision between a passenger plane and a Black Hawk helicopter in DC
A commercial passenger plane bound for Reagan National Airport collided ... land.AA Flight 5342: “Tower, Bluestreak 5342 on Mount Vernon visual, Runway 1”Air Traffic Control: “Bluestreak ...
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Air traffic controllers were initially offered buyouts and told to consider leaving government
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is pictured, Friday, Jan. 31 ...
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What is air traffic control staffing like at Richmond International Airport?
(WRIC) — The Associated Press reported that the air traffic ... The tower is reportedly authorized to have 28 controllers. As of Sept. 23, 2023, Richmond International Airport (RIC) had 14 ...
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UMass hopes to train next generation of air traffic controllers in tower simulator
CHICOPEE - Inside the UMass Transportation Center in Chicopee, you'll find one of the only 360-degree air traffic control ... Airport here, it's exactly what you'd see from the tower," a UMTC ...