An Air Corsica flight was forced to circle for more than an hour when the airport's air traffic controller fell asleep while on duty.

Turns out it wasn’t an anomaly when an air traffic controller fell asleep on the overnight shift at Reagan National Airport in Washington D.C. last month. A Federal Aviation Administration official ...

Hank Krakowski, chief operating officer of the FAA's Air Traffic Organization (ATO), resigned April 14, in the wake of the incidents involving controllers either asleep or unresponsive during late ...

Two air traffic controllers were fired for sleeping on the job, first for workers napping while on the clock, and second, for the close brush when Michelle Obama’s plane came dangerously close to a ...