Sen. Ted Cruz asked whether a hotline between military and civilian air traffic controllers in Washington, D.C., that hasn’t ...

The FAA confirmed the agency didn’t know the hotline hadn’t been working since March 2022 until after the latest near miss at ...

The Deputy FAA Air Traffic Control chief said the issue came to light after Reagan National had to wave off two incoming flights.

The Federal Aviation Administration revealed the discovery and said they were not aware of the malfunction until early this ...

The downed line was only noticed after the mid-air collision between a Black Hawk helicopter and a regional passenger plane ...

Air traffic controllers recently had to tell two commercial airplanes to abort their landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport after an Army Black Hawk helicopter strayed into restricted airspace ...

A direct line between the Pentagon and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport's air traffic control tower has been ...

A hotline that directly connects the Pentagon to the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport ...

When Congress approved the addition of 10 extra daily flights at Ronald Reagan National Airport ... The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which oversees air travel at Reagan and Washington ...

Patterson should know. In 1984, at just 23, he found himself eating lunch at a McDonald’s in Northport seated next to President Ronald Reagan. What began as a routine day on his way to a shift ...

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But the reality is, this is a very congested airport. It’s one of the nation’s busiest and most complex from a commercial passenger flight perspective. There are still some helicopter flights ...