A preliminary FAA safety report reveals that the air traffic control tower at Reagan National Airport was understaffed during the fatal collision between a passenger aircraft and an army helicopter.

An internal preliminary report from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reportedly showed that the number of staff members working at the air control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington ...

Three persons were onboard the Army helicopter. According to the Associated Press, audio from the air traffic control tower around the time of the crash captured the grim moment. Follow latest ...

An internal operational report shows there were no staffing concerns inside the control tower. The military is reviewing where and when the military does Black Hawk training.

About 40 seconds later ground traffic control alerted the tower. "Yup we saw it," someone from the tower says, and then the controllers begin the process of frantically diverting the flights.

The administration intended to switch contract providers to Robinson ... with conflicting reports about whether control-tower staffing was appropriate at the time of the crash.

Staffing in the air traffic control tower was "not normal" at time of the midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., according to a ...

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A report by the Federal Aviation Administration says staffing in the air traffic control tower was “not normal” at the time of the midair collision near Washington.

Those jobs are typically assigned to two people, not one. By Sydney Ember and Emily Steel Staffing at the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport was “not normal for the time ...