The air traffic control tower at Reagan National Airport may have been understaffed the night of the collision between an ...

A preliminary Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) report has found that the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport was essentially understaffed when Wednesday’s American Airs ...

staffing at the air traffic control tower was "not normal" at the time of the crash. When aircraft volume goes down, a supervisor can make the decision to combine two controller positions into one ...