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61% surge in near mid-air collisions and 23-fold rise in controller workload highlight ongoing U.S. air traffic control staffing crisis. Air traffic control towers will “never” reach full staffing ...

Two Southwest Airlines Boeing 737s came within seconds of colliding over Nashville International Airport in April 2026 after a controller directed one jet straight into the path of another, triggering ...

A runway collision at Tokyo's Haneda airport has raised concerns over a gap in alerting technology, weeks after the global ...