The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found no evidence of foul play and blamed the crash on errors by the pilot, who failed to retract the plane’s spoilers, or air brakes, at the critical ...

The ABC7 I-Team has been reporting on air traffic controller staffing issues for years, and Wednesday night's tragic plane ...

Hearing that just one air traffic controller was monitoring both planes and helicopters has left many to wonder how common such a situation is.

The National Transportation Safety Board has begun an investigation into the deadly mid-air collision between an American ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- After two major air disasters in the span of two days last week, attention has focused on the country's airline systems and specifically, air traffic controller staffing shortages ...

A medical transport jet transporting a child who had just completed treatment for a life-threatening condition, her mother ...

American Airlines Flight 191 is seen plunging — the 1979 crash remains the deadliest aircraft accident in US history. | ...

Here’s a look back at commercial passenger plane crashes that stunned Chicago. A Transcontinental ... research into ways to reduce icing. A Delta Air Lines DC-4 crashed and burned on takeoff ...

Before Wednesday’s crash near Washington, D.C., there had not been a fatal collision involving a commercial aircraft in the ...

WUSA9 spoke with Todd Yeary, who worked in air traffic control in Chicago on 9/11, about what it is like to communicate with ...