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A pilot preparing to take off Monday from Hollywood Burbank Airport in California took the routine step of radioing the air traffic control tower. But instead of the usual back-and-forth conversation ...

No Bay Area building shows the engineered reality of today’s architectural scene — or rather, keeps it under wraps — quite like the new flight control tower at San Francisco International Airport. The ...

As an American Airlines pilot eased his nonstop flight from Dallas into Nashville on the afternoon of Aug. 16, an air traffic controller stopped him. The plane needed to abort landing immediately.

NEW YORK -- An investigation is underway after a Southwest flight veered off course and came extremely close to a control tower at New York's LaGuardia Airport during a landing attempt last month. The ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. When Denver’s first airport opened in 1929, humans were still unsure if planes could safely take off and land ...

SAN CARLOS — An airport on the flight path into San Francisco may lose its air traffic controllers as soon as this weekend following a pay dispute, raising safety concerns on the Peninsula. The ...

Terry Dunlay of Durango has been a pilot for about six years and flies his single-engine propeller plane in and out of Durango-La Plata County Airport about once a week. Over those years, Dunlay, 67, ...

Tens of thousands of planes take off, land and perform touch-and-goes at the Marana Regional Airport in southern Arizona every year. Without an air traffic control tower, it's a calculated dance that ...

This is having *** great impact, great concern, great stress. The FAA says it's been delaying flights due to air traffic controller shortages. The transportation secretary blames the government ...